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Chapter 3 vocab
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Mathematics
9th Grade
09/29/2011

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Incenter
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The point of concurrency of a triangle's three ANGLE BISECTORS. (find perpendicular segment to draw inscribed circle)
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Circumcenter
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The point of concurrency of a triangle's three PERPENDICULAR BISECTORS. Inside of triangle for acute, on the hypotenuse for right, and outside for obtuse. (find length of circumcenter to vertices for circumscribing a circle around a triangle)
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Orthocenter
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The point of concurrency of a triangle's three ALTITUDES (or lines containing the altitudes)
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Centroid
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The point of concurrency of a triangle's three MEDIANS.
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