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Unit 4 Vocab

Published on Dec 11, 2015

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ACUTE TRIANGLE

a triangle whose interior angles are all acute
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RIGHT TRIANGLE

a triangle with a right angle.
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OBTUSE TRIANGLE

a triangle that contains an obtuse interior angle
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EQUIANGULAR TRIANGLE

a three-sided regular polygon

EQUILATERAL TRIANGLE

a three-sided regular polygon
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ISOCSELES TRIANGLE

a triangle with two equal sides

Scalene Triangle

a triangle with no two sides of equal length
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SSS

THE SIDE-SIDE-SIDE (SSS) CONGRUENCE STATES THAT IF THE THREE SIDES OF ONE TRIANGLE HAVE THE SAME LENGTHS AS THE THREE SIDES OF ANOTHER TRIANGLE, THEN THE TWO TRIANGLES ARE CONGRUENT.

SAS

Side-angle-side (SAS) congruence states that if any two sides of a triangle are equal in length to two sides of another triangle and the angles bewteen each pair of sides have the same measure, then the two triangles are congruent; that is, they have exactly the same shape and size.

ASA

Triangles are congruent if any two angles and their included side are equal in both triangles.

AAS

Triangles are congruent if two pairs of corresponding angles and a pair of opposite sides are equal in both triangles

CPCTC

CORRESPONDING PARTS OF CONGRUENT TRIANGLES ARE CONGRUENT

Concurrent

When three or more lines meet at a single point, they are said to be concurrent. In a triangle, the three medians, three perpendicular bisectors, three angle bisectors, and three altitudes are each concurrent.

Median of a Triangle

A median of a triangle is a line segment joining a vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side.

Centroid

The centroid of a triangle is the point where the three medians meet. This point is the center of mass for the triangle. If you cut a triangle out of a piece of paper and put your pencil point at the centroid, you could balance the triangle.

Altitude of a Triangle

Altitude of a Triangle is the perpendicular distance from any of its vertices to the opposite side. (This opposite side of the vertex is called the base of the altitude.)