The national park service is building a 16 mile hiking trail. they will post a sign every 1/8 mile along the trail, including one at the end. there will not be a sign posted at the beginning of the trail. how many signs will they post along the trail?

There are 2 signs will be posted along the trail.

Step-by-step explanation:

Since we have given that

Total length of hiking trail = 16 miles

They will post a sign every along the trail, including one at the end.

No sign posted at the beginning of the trail.

Number of signs will be posted along the trail is given by

Hence, there are 2 signs will be posted along the trail.

for finding the midpoint of any given 2 pair of points simply add the respective x coordinates with other x coordinate and the y coordinate with other y coordinate and divide them by 2

in your question it will be :

(3+1)/2 for the x coordinate of mid point i.e 2

[8+(-4)]/2 for the y coordinate of midpoint i.e 2

so coordinates of mid point of points (3,8) and (1,-4) will be (2,2)