Documents for Midpoints and Midsegments

Posted on 2008.01.10
Categories: Matters of math; Tagged with: , , , , ,

Our project between the three of us (Frederick, Davin, Adam) was “midsegment conjectures for triangles and parallelograms”.

What we’ve demonstrated (hopefully), is that:

  • The length of any midsegment in a triangle is equal to half of the side to which it is parallel
  • The inscribed polygon of any triangle has an area that is a quarter the area of the triangle
  • The inscribed polygon of any parallelogram is half the area of the parallelogram
  • The perimeter of the inscribed polygon in any parallelogram is equal to half of the sum of the diagonals

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