Mr. Smith paid $232,300 for his home and $33,560 for his car. Mr. Lewton paid a total of $282,106 for his home and car combined. How much more money did Mr. Lewton pay than Mr. Smith for a home and car?

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)