How Do You Use the Centroid to Find Segment Lengths in a Triangle?

How Do You Use the Centroid to Find Segment Lengths in a Triangle?

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When you're given the centroid of a triangle and a few measurements of that triangle, you can use that information to find missing measurements in the triangle! This tutorial shows you how it's done.

Keywords:

  • problem
  • triangle
  • centroid
  • triangle sides
  • segment length

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