Question

Explain how you would contruct a perpendicular bisector of wx using a compass and a straightedge.

Answer 1

To perpendicular bisector of line segment WX. There are following steps:

1) Draw arcs or circles from points A and B on the both sides of WX.

2) Mark the intersection points as A and B.

3) Use the straightedge to draw a line through points W and X.

4) Name the intersection point as O on line segment WX.

Hence we have construct perpendicular bisector AB of WX which bisects at O.