Lisa, Bree, and Caleb are meeting at an amusement park. They each enter at a different gate. On this diagram of the park, explain where the friends can meet so that each walks the same distance from the gate to their meeting point.

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i know you make a triangle from all those points..but what do you do next?

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from there go from one gate to the middle of the other two gates (AKA people)

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so your finding the midpoints from an angle... wait a sec, thats a... median! haha fun

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im confused..:(

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can you explain what you did in words?

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like step by step? if u could..:)

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yeah (sorry i just learned this a couple weeks ago.) So basically, your just finding the centroid of the triangle. remember that the centroid is the place where all the medians cross, and a median is from one angle to the midpoint of it's opposite side:|dw:1354668878562:dw|

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