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A student wants to construct the inscribed circle of a triangle. What is the first step she should take?

a. Construct a circle using one of the vertices of the triangle.
b. Construct the perpendicular bisector of each side of the triangle
c. Construct a line parallel to the vertex of the triangle
d. Construct the angle bisector of each angle in the triangle

User Adaxa
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Answer: i think it’s b

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User Yuuuu
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D) construction of the angle bisector.
So if you have a triangle that is not equilateral the perpendicular bisectors would not work so you need angle bisectors.
I have drawn a diagram
The green is the angle bisectors and the yellow the perpendicular bisectors.
You can see the problem straight away
A student wants to construct the inscribed circle of a triangle. What is the first-example-1
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