The perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle are concurrent at a point that is equidistant from the vertices.
Prove this theorem!
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Jamshed Al-Kashi
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OK... I guess we figured out our approach to this problem in class... Any Comments?
We should figure out if we're doing it Connor's way or not though. I realize that all of our approaches are basically the same, but there is a slight difference.
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