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A student’s construction of the perpendicular bisector of is shown below. What is the student’s error?

A student’s construction of the perpendicular bisector of is shown below. What is-example-1
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The student did not make the opening of each arc drawn from S and T greater than half the length of the line ST. When drawing a perpendicular bisector, the arcs should go past the center of the line segment.
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