Monday, May 7, 2012

Angle Bisector of a Right Triangle

Move point P.  What do you observe?

This is a Java Applet created using GeoGebra from www.geogebra.org - it looks like you don't have Java installed, please go to www.java.com


  1. What can you say about the diagonal of the outer square in relation to its angles? in relation to the right triangles formed by the square? 
  2. What can you say about the diagonal of the outer square in relation to the inner square?
  3. What conjecture can you make from your observation in 2?

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