Question

What term describes a line segment that connects a vertex of a triangle to a point on the line containing the opposite side, so that the line segment is perpendicular to that line?

Answer 1

I have a feeling it is Altitude

Answer 2

but i don't know what it is called

Answer 3

It could be an altitude assuming that the triangle is an acute triangle.

Answer 4

Its Altitude, it says I got it right. Nice :)

Answer 5

If the triangle is obtuse, then the perpendicular line to the opposite side will NOT start from the vertex.

Pretty poor question.

Answer 6

Instead of the answer, why not try to understand what an altitude is. The three altitudes of a triangle need NOT start from the vertex and ending somewhere on the opposite side. Becuase that is NOT always possible.

Answer 7

Which term describes a line segment that connects a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side?

Answer 8

Thats a median.

Answer 9

I don't get these questions, they have written them so poorly

Answer 10

No if's or but's about that.

Answer 11

Yes, it was median :)

Answer 12

Your last question is fine (about the median). The altitude question is very poorly written and would never appear on any real examination, at least not the way you worded it.

Answer 13

They will say Triangle ABC and not give a picture but if you draw it like angle a at the top then b on the right and c on the left you can get it wrong, its really frustrating

Answer 14

I might know the answer, but because I pictured it or drew it differently I might get it wrong

Answer 15

When the wording is Triangle ABC without any specification, a student can draw it any way he/she wants to draw ABC. Thats the problem. Wording is important so there is NO ambiguity in the question.

Answer 16

This was one of the problems how I drew it but because it was but because A was supposed to be where C is and B was supposed to be where A is and C where B is I got it wrong.