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To Locate Centroid and Orthocentre for different types of triangles

Given below is an applet which shows medians of a triangle. Drag the points A, B and C and observe.

Q1. From the applet you can see that all the 3 medians are passing through a common point, G. What is this point of concurrency called?

Construct and explore the altitudes of a triangle and show its point of concurrency.

Altitudes of a Triangle

Drag the vertices of the triangle in the two applets above and answer the following questions:

Q2. In what type of triangle, the centroid and orthocentre always lies inside the triangle?

Q3. In what type of triangle, the orthocentre can be outside the triangle?

Q4. Is there a triangle, in which the orthocentre lies on the triangle? What is the type of a triangle, if it exists?