The equation of the perpendicular line

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First we need to find the point that the perpendicular line goes through on this line segment. The problem says it's a perpendicular bisector, which means it goes through the middle of the line, which means the point it goes through is halfway between (4, 4) and (-8, 8). This point would be (-2, 6).

Next, we need to find the slope of the perpendicular line. We know that if the slope of the line segment we're given is , then the slope of the line perpendicular to this line segment is .

The slope of the line segment can be found by the following:

This means that the slope of the perpendicular line is 3.

The equation of a line is , were is the slope and is the Y-intercept.

We know the slope, we so we just need to determine the Y-intercept. To do so, we can plug in a point that we know the line goes through, (-2, 6), and solve for :

Finally, the equation of the line is

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the answer is: the length is 5/6 yards.

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