Unit 3 Geometric Properties

Investigate/verify Properties of Triangles

The medians of a triangle meet at a single point, the centroid o Each of the medians bisect the area of the triangle o The centroid of a triangle divides each median into two parts, with one part being twice the length of the other o Once you have all three equations of the medians, you must find the POI of two of them using elimination, graphing, or substitution. This will be the centroid. Collinear means that the points lie on the same line When the right bisectors of a triangle meet at a single point, it is called the circumcenter o Once you have all three equations of the right bisectors, you must find the POI of two of them using elimination, graphing, or substitution. This will be the circumcenter. When the altitudes of a triangle meet at a single point, it is called the orthocenter The altitude is found in almost the same way as the right bisector. The only difference is that instead of the perpendicular slope of a line segment and equation of the midpoint being substituted into y=mx+b, the perpendicular slope of a line segment and the coordinates of the vertex opposite to the line segment gets substituted into y=mx+b o Once you have all three equations of the altitudes, you must find the POI of two of them using elimination, graphing, or substitution. This will be the orthocenter. To find out if two lines are parallel, find the slope of each. If they match, they are parallel.

Investigate/verity Properties of Quadrilateral

Quadrilateral = a shape with four sides The diagonals of a parallogram bisect each other Joining the midpoints of adjacent sides of any quadrilateral forms a parallelogram (a four sided shape with opposite sides parallel, equal in length, and opposite angles equal) To find the midpoint of a trapezoid: o Trapezoid PQRS o First, draw run-rise triangles on the two non-parallel sides. The sum of these is equal to the diff. between the lengths of the sides. The equations are: QR=PS+runPQ+runRS o Next, the run from the midpoint of a side to either endpoint is equal to half the run between endpoints: PS+QS /2

Properties of circles
The diameters of the circle intersect at the center The right bisector of a chord or two chords passes through the center There is only one circle that passes through three given non-collinear points