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Mathematics
10th Grade
01/18/2011

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Altitude of a triangle
Definition
a perpendicular segment from a vertex to the line containing the side pposite that vertex
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centroid
Definition
the point of intersection of the medians of that triangle
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circumcenter
Definition
the point of concurrency of the perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle
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circumscribed about
Definition
A circle is circumscribed about a polygon if the vertices of the polygon are on the circle
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concurrent lines
Definition
three or more lines that meet in one point
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contrapositive
Definition
if p then q then, if not q then not p,
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distance from a point to a line
Definition
the length of a perpendicular segment from the point to the line
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equivalent statements
Definition
statements with the same truth value
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incenter of a triangle
Definition
the point of concurrency of the angle birsectors of the triangle
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indirect proof/resoning
Definition
a type of resoning in which all possibilities are considered and then the unwanted ones are proved false, the remaining possibilities must be true
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Inscribed in
Definition
a circle is inscribed in a ploygon if the sides of the polygon are tangent to the circle
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Inverse
Definition
the inerse of the conditional if p then q is if not p then not q
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Median of a triangle
Definition
a segment that has as its endpoints a vertex of the trianlge and the midpoint of the opposite side
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midsegment
Definition
the segment that joins the midpoints of two sides of the trianlge
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negation
Definition
the negation of a statement has the opposite meaning of the orginal statement
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orthocenter
Definition
the point of the intersection of the lines containing the altitudes of the triangle
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