Each member of the group should cut out a large acute scalene triangle. Make each one different. For each triangle fold the triangle to form the perpendicular bisectors of the sides. The fold for the perpendicular bisectors of
a. Do the three perpendicular bisectors meet at a common point for each triangle?
b. For each triangle, label the vertices as A, B, and C and the common intersection point P. Measure
c. What changes in this experiment would you have to make for different kinds of triangles?
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