$A, B$ বিন্দু থেকে সমদূরবর্তী বিন্দু $AB$ এর লম্বসমদ্বিখন্ডকের ওপর অবস্থিত

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It turns out that points on the perpendicular bisector of a segment have a special, important property. Let's look at an arbitrary point XX on the perpendicular bisector of a segment again and examine what we see:

We can't really see much from this. However, when we can't see much in a diagram, draw lines!

What line(s) would be best to draw?

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Intuitively, this is true by pure symmetry.

In the eyes of a point PP on the perpendicular bisector, there is nothing that actually distinguishes points AA and BB.

More formally, one may use congruent triangles to prove this result.

Denote the midpoint of ABAB as MM.

Clearly, △APM≅△BPM\triangle APM\cong\triangle BPM by SAS congruence.

Thus, AP=BPAP=BP.

Therefore, we have proven that a point on the perpendicular bisector of a segment is equidistant from the two endpoints of the segment.

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