Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Inscribed Angles and Three Corollaries

In honor of March Madness, I decided to base my Geometry Hunters post on basketball. While playing basketball at Oakwood one day, I looked up to notice the ring part of the hoop was a perfect example of a circle. I then went on to try to prove the three corollaries listed in Chapter 9 of our textbooks with this simple real-life example of a circle.

Corollary 1: If two inscribed angles intercept the same arc, then the angles are congruent.


Corollary 2:  An angle inscribed in a semicircle is a right angle.



And finally,

Corollary 3: If a quadrilateral is inscribed in a circle, then its opposite angles are supplementary. 


(~RO5)

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