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Jace is making a water play table from a triangular tabletop. He sketched a dotted line to show where he wantsto add a circular water bowl. It should go all the way tothe edges of the table as shown.

Jace is making a water play table from a triangular tabletop. He sketched a dotted-example-1
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Looking at the given triangle, we can see that it is a right angle triangle since one of the angles is 90 degrees.

For the circular water bowl to touch each side of the triangle, the center of the circular bowl would be determined by bisecting each of the angles at the vertices of the triangular table top. Therefore,

the correct option is the second one

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