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Exploring Isosceles Triangles (Version A)

In the GeoGebra Geometry app window below:

1) Use the CIRCLE WITH CENTER THROUGH POINT Toolbar Image tool to construct a circle with center A that passes through B. 2) Select the POINT ON OBJECT Toolbar Image tool. With this tool selected, touch the circle in 2 different spots to plot two different points, C and D, on the circle itself. 3) Use the POLYGON Toolbar Image tool to construct the triangle ACD. How would you classify this triangle by its sides? Why is this?

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4) Select the MOVE Toolbar Image tool. 5) Use the ANGLE Toolbar Image tool to find and display the measures of all 3 angles of this triangle.

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What do you notice? (Be sure to select the MOVE tool again and move all 4 points around!)