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PROVE THAT AM IS PERPENDICULAR TO BM

PLEASEEEE HELPPP!! 30 POINTS! PROVE THAT AM IS PERPENDICULAR TO BM-example-1
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Extend the line segment AM until it touches AC, and call that intersection point P. Triangle AMP then forms a pair of similar triangles:


\Delta AMP\sim\Delta PDM

From this we know that angles MDP and AMP are congruent, and we already know MDP is a right angle so it follows that
AM\perp BM.

(You can ignore most of the labels in the image; I realized moments later after posting that the proof is much simpler than I originally thought)

PLEASEEEE HELPPP!! 30 POINTS! PROVE THAT AM IS PERPENDICULAR TO BM-example-1
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