Triangle Centers

If Z is the centroid, what type of segments are drawn?

• angle bisectors
• perpendicular bisectors
• altitudes
• medians

Where can the centroid be located on a right triangle?

• Outside
• Always inside
• On the hypotenuse

The centroid cuts each median into two segments.  The shorter segment is ___________ the length of the entire segment.

• one third
• two thirds
• three fourths
• one half

When you draw the perpendicular bisectors of a triangle it creates the point of concurrency called the _____________.

• Centroid
• Incenter
• Circumcenter
• Orthocenter

If G is the circumcenter, what type of segments are drawn?

• perpendicular bisectors
• angle bisectors
• altitudes
• centroids

The circumcenter of a triangle is equidistant from the _______ of the triangle.

• verticies
• sides
• center
• medsegment

The circumcenter is always inside the triangle.

• true
• false

Where is the circumcenter on a  obtuse triangle?

• Outside
• Inside
• mid point of hypotenuse
• at the vertex with the right angle

The incenter is __________ found inside a triangle.

• Sometimes
• Always
• Never

The incenter of a triangle is equidistant from the _________ of the triangle.

• midsegment
• center
• verticies
• sides