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9.3 WS The Inscribed Angle Theorem

The document discusses the Inscribed Angle Theorem (IAT) which states that an inscribed angle is equal to half the measure of the arc it cuts out. It covers three cases for the IAT: 1) when the center of the circle lies on the side of the angle, 2) when the center lies inside the angle, and 3) when the center lies outside the angle. Two corollaries are also discussed - that inscribed angles cutting the same arc are equal, and that parallel chords cut equal arcs. Several problems are then presented to apply the IAT.

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9.3 WS The Inscribed Angle Theorem

The document discusses the Inscribed Angle Theorem (IAT) which states that an inscribed angle is equal to half the measure of the arc it cuts out. It covers three cases for the IAT: 1) when the center of the circle lies on the side of the angle, 2) when the center lies inside the angle, and 3) when the center lies outside the angle. Two corollaries are also discussed - that inscribed angles cutting the same arc are equal, and that parallel chords cut equal arcs. Several problems are then presented to apply the IAT.

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9.3 WS: The Inscribed Angle Theorem

I. The Inscribed Angle Theorem


The proof of the Inscribed Angle Theorem (IAT) breaks up into three cases. In Case One, one side of the inscribed angle passes
through the circle’s center. In Case Two, the circle’s center lies in the interior of the inscribed angle. In Case Three, the circle’s center
lies outside the inscribed angle. Since these three are all possible cases, when done, we’ll know that every inscribed angle is half the
measure of the arc that it cuts

Case One is the key to the other two. Indeed Cases Two and Three are corollaries of Case One.

1. Case One When the circle’s center lies on a side of an inscribed angle, then that inscribed angle measures half the arc that it cuts.

Given:
Prove:

2. Case Two When the circle’s center lies in the interior of an inscribed angle, then that inscribed angle measures half the arc that it
cuts.

Given:
Prove:

3. Case Three When the circle’s center lies in the exterior of an inscribed angle, then that inscribed angle measures half the arc that it
cuts.

Given:
Prove:

II. The Corollaries


The first corollary I’ll prove myself. It’s so very obvious that it would be (as a student so memorably put it) menial labor. I will
however have you prove the second corollary. It isn’t so obvious.

1. The first corollary says that a pair of inscribed angles are equal if they cut the same arc. (We mean of course inscribed angles in the
same circle.) Consider the diagram below:

Angles A and C cut the same arc, arc BD. Moreover, angles A and C are inscribed, and so by the IAT the measure of each is half the
measure of the arc that it cuts. Thus the measure of angle A is half the measure of arc BD, and the measure of angle C is half the
measure of arc BD. This makes angles A and C equal. (We could also prove in the same way that angles B and D are equal.)
2. A second corollary of IAT says that parallels cut equal arcs. This one you’ll prove.

Given: chords BC and AD are parallel


Prove: arcs AC and BD have equal measure

III. Problems
‘CBD’ (short for ‘Cannot Be Determined’) is the answer to at least one question below. Points that looks like centers are centers.
1. Arc BC measures 45°. Find m∡BAC. 2. Angle BAC measures 60°. Find the measure of arc BC.

3. Find the measure of angle BCD. 4. Arc BCD measures 210°. Find the measure of angle BCD.

5. Find m∡BAD if m∡BCD = 60°. 6. m∡BAD = 120°. Find m∡BCD.

7. Angle ABC is right. Find m∡ADC and m∡DAB. 8. Find m∡ADC.

9. Chord AB is a diameter. Arc CD measures 45°. 10. Find the measures of angles DBE, DAE and BCD.
Find the measure of arc AD.

11. Find the measure of arc DEF.

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