The Perpendicular Bisectors of a Triangle


	The perpendicular bisectors of the sides of a triangle intersect in a single point, called the circumcenter. The circumcenter is equidistant from the vertices of the triangle. The circumcircle passes through the three vertices.


	Contributed by: Jay Warendorff

For more information see Anatomy of Triangles at the University of British Columbia.

Perpendicular Bisector (Wolfram MathWorld)

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Contributed by: Jay Warendorff

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Plane Geometry
Triangles
High School Geometry
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