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jmc

algebra senior

Problem

There are four points that are units from the line and units from the point . What is the sum of the - and -coordinates of all four of these points?
Solution
Let be one such point. Since is units from the line , it must be 5 units above the line or 5 units below it. This means that the -coordinate is 8 or 18. By the distance formula, since is 13 units from , we have Since is either 5 more or 5 less than 13, we know that . So we substitute:

So we have or , giving or .

Putting it all together, we have and , so our four possible points are and The sum of all of these coordinates is .
Final answer
80