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Geo Performance Task s2 1

By bisecting two line segments of a triangle and finding their point of intersection, you determine the circumcenter of the triangle. The circumcenter is equidistant from the triangle's vertices. Drawing a circle around the vertices shows that the circumcenter is at the center of the circle and that each vertex-to-circumcenter line segment is a radius. If constructing a regular hexagon, the triangles formed by connecting vertices to the circumcenter are equilateral since the hexagon's interior angles are all 120 degrees and the triangles' angles are bisected to 60 degrees. Using an inscribed triangle theorem, an inscribed angle is half the measure of the opposite exterior angle. A hexagon's interior angles are

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Geo Performance Task s2 1

By bisecting two line segments of a triangle and finding their point of intersection, you determine the circumcenter of the triangle. The circumcenter is equidistant from the triangle's vertices. Drawing a circle around the vertices shows that the circumcenter is at the center of the circle and that each vertex-to-circumcenter line segment is a radius. If constructing a regular hexagon, the triangles formed by connecting vertices to the circumcenter are equilateral since the hexagon's interior angles are all 120 degrees and the triangles' angles are bisected to 60 degrees. Using an inscribed triangle theorem, an inscribed angle is half the measure of the opposite exterior angle. A hexagon's interior angles are

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By making the two line segments and bisecting them, and then finding where those two bisect

lines intersect, you have found the circumcenter of the triangle. This means that points D, E, and
F are all equidistant from that point (point O). If you were to then draw a circle around points D,
E, and F and connect a line from any of the three given points to point O, you find that the line
segment drawn is the radius of the circle, this is because point O is circumcenter of the triangle
and the triangle is in the middle of the circle making it the circumcenter of the circle as well.

If the circles were constructing a regular hexagon we can determine that the triangle is
equilateral. The measure of all interior angles of a hexagon are 120 degrees and all the radii of
the circle bisect the angles of the hexagon equally. Since the angles are bisected and half of 120
is 60, we know that the triangle is equilateral since all angles of an equilateral triangle are 60
degrees.

Diameter M splits circle M into two semi-circles, triangle AFC is found in one half. Using the
inscribed triangle theorem, we know that an inscribed angle will have half the measure of the
opposite angle. In this case the opposite angle to angle FAC is 180 degrees, making the measure
of angle FAC 90 degrees. Since a hexagon’s interior angles are 120 degrees, and angle F is being
bisected by the diameter, this makes angle F 60. From here we can subtract 90 and 60 from 180
to get the remaining angle measure which is 30.
You first perpendicularly bisect the diameter of the triangle, you can do this by setting the
compass on a point of the circle and setting the compass length so that it is more that half the
radius. Ater this is done, you draw an arc that passes through the diameter, and then move the
compass to opposite point on the circle and repeat while making sure to not change compass
width. Once you have 2 lines perpendicular to each other in the triangle, you can draw 4 lines
from where the vertical line crosses the circle to where the horizontal line crosses the circle. It
should look like 4 right triangles are in the circle and where two adjacent triangle vertices meet is
where there is a square vertex.
The two tangents would form a circumscribed angle because the tangents from opposite sides of
the diameter/ circle would eventually intersect forming an angle.
3. Def. of Isosceles
4. Triangle Angle Sum Theorem
5. CD = AD; AD = DE
9. Substitution
10. Def. of Linear Pair
11. Angle ADC + Angle EDA = 180 degrees
16. Def. of Right Triangle
18. Angle CAE = 90 degrees
20. Line Seg AC ⟂ Line Seg AE
21. Def of Tangent Line

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