In a triangle, the midsegment is ___________ to and ____________ of the non-intersecting side.
1) perpendicular, half the length
2) parallel, half the length
3) perpendicular, twice the length
4) parallel, twice the length

Question

In a triangle, the midsegment is ___________ to and ____________ of the non-intersecting side.
	1)	perpendicular, half the length
	2)	parallel, half the length
	3)	perpendicular, twice the length
	4)	parallel, twice the length

anonymous · Answer

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is a segment joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle.
In the above figure you should see the following:

AD = DB
and AE =CE
DE is the midsegment line.   It is parallele to BC (the third  line of the trangle ABC

BC is also the non-intersecting line as far as the midsegment line DE is concerned