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The legs of chateti of a right triangle are 9 and 12 cm. Find the distance between the intersection point of bisectors and the point of intersection of the medians
It should say simply "legs", or "catheti". See Wikipedia for terminology.Elena said:The legs of chateti of a right triangle
Do you mean angle bisectors or perpendicular bisectors?Elena said:Find the distance between the intersection point of bisectors and the point of intersection of the medians
Elena said:I mean the distance betwen the intersection point of bisectors and the intersection point of medians
...Evgeny.Makarov said:Do you mean angle bisectors or perpendicular bisectors?
Also, what are your thoughts about the solution? What topic does this problem belong to, e.g., coordinate geometry, circumscribed circle, etc.?
Evgeny.Makarov said:...
could you solve my problem please i don`t understand the drawingEvgeny.Makarov said:Вы имеете в виду биссектрисы? По-английски они называются angle bisectors, в то время как серединные перпендикуляры называются perpendicular bisectors.
If you mean angle bisectors, then Wikipedia says the radius of the inscribed circle is $r=(a+b-c)/2$ where $a$ and $b$ are legs and $c$ is the hypotenuse. Thus, if we arrange the triangle so that its right angle is in the origin and legs go along the $x$ and $y$ axes, respectively, then the coordinates if the inscribed circle center (which is also the intersection point of angle bisectors) will be $(r,r)$. The hypotenuse ends will have coordinates $(12,0)$ and $(0,9)$, so it is possible to find the middle $D$ of that segment. The intersection point of medians lies $2/3$ of the way from $(0,0)$ to $D$. This way you can find the coordinates of the intersection of medians. Then find the distance according to the usual formula for two points with known coordinates.