Interactive · 2 questions
Let's talk about lines. Let us say we are given a line segment . We can draw it like this:
First of all, we know what a bisector is, right?
Great. Now, do we know what it means for two lines or line segments to be perpendicular?
Alright. So if we wanted to find some line that is perpendicular to the segment , we can just find any such line quite easily and draw it so that the angle between the lines is , like so:
Great! What I have drawn is one such line. And I have marked the point of intersection and labeled it as . Now what if we wanted to make this perpendicular line a bisector of the segment ? All we would have to do is translate the line up or down so that the intersection point, , is the midpoint of the segment.
Great; the line we drew is perpendicular to the segment and it is a bisector of segment . Thus, we call it a perpendicular bisector of segment .


