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Geometry. Pottery Sherd. Dinner Plate. Archeologists found a portion of a circular plate . Describe a method to determine its diameter. Dinner Plate. A few hints: Theorems - a diameter is a perpendicular bisector of a chord
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Geometry Pottery Sherd
Dinner Plate • Archeologists found a portion of a circular plate. • Describe a method to determine its diameter.
Dinner Plate • A few hints: • Theorems - a diameter is a perpendicular bisector of a chord • Theorem - the hypotenuse of an inscribed right triangle is a diameter
Dinner Plate • In order to analyze this, let’s place the image in GeoGebra and analyze it that way • Link to GeoGebra file