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Construct a Perpendicular Bisector

Construct a Perpendicular Bisector. Geometry. Warm Up. Check your homework: work with your partner. Hold one partner’s work over another’s. Did your angles and bisectors coincide perfectly?. Vocabulary.

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Construct a Perpendicular Bisector

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  1. Construct a Perpendicular Bisector Geometry

  2. Warm Up • Check your homework: work with your partner. Hold one partner’s work over another’s. Did your angles and bisectors coincide perfectly?

  3. Vocabulary • Perpendicular: Two lines are perpendicular if they intersect in one point, and any of the angles formed by the intersection of the lines is a 90˚ angle. Two segments or rays are perpendicular if the lines containing them are perpendicular lines. • Right Angle: An angle is called a right angle if its measure is 90˚.

  4. A perpendicular bisector of a segment passes through the _____________________ of the segment and forms _____________________ with the segment. • Equidistant: A point is said to be equidistant from two different points and if . A point is said to be equidistant from a point and a line if the distance between and is equal to .

  5. Perpendicular Bisector • We now investigate how to construct a perpendicular bisector of a line segment using a compass and straightedge. Using what you know about the construction of an angle bisector, experiment with your construction tools and the following line segment to establish the steps that determine this construction.

  6. Steps • Label the endpoints of the segment A and B. • Draw circle A: center A, radius AB. • Draw circle B: center B, radius BA. • Label the points of intersections as C and D. • Draw line CD.

  7. Exercise 1 • Now that you are familiar with the construction of a perpendicular bisector, we must make one last observation. Using your compass or ruler, examine the following pairs of segments: • , • , • , Based on your findings, fill in the observation below. Observation: • Any point on the perpendicular bisector of a line segment is _____________________ from the endpoints of the line segment.

  8. Exercise 2 • Divide the following segment into 4 segments of equal length. Explain your steps.

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