Question

Audra was drawing a perpendicular bisector of segment AB with a compass. She started with line segment AB. Then, she placed her compass point on A and open the compass more than halfway to B. Which of the following is Audra’s next step?

Answer 1

A perpendicular bisector must go through the midpoint of a line, in this case AB. Since Audra opened her compass to more than half way she needs to close it partially until she is on the midpoint.

Answer 2

Given that Audra was drawing a perpendicular bisector of segment AB with a compass. She started with line segment AB. Then, she placed her compass point on A and opened the compass more halfway to B.

Her next step will be "Using the width of the compass from the previous step, draw two arcs to the left and right of both A and B".

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