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Question
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What other name can you give to the line of symmetry of

(a) an isosceles triangle?

(b)a circle?

Solution

(a) An isosceles triangle has only 1 line of symmetry.

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Therefore, this line of symmetry is the median and also the altitude of this isosceles triangle.

(b) There are infinite lines of symmetry in a circle. Some of these are represented as follows.

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It can be concluded that each line of symmetry is the diameter for this circle.