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    The document provides explanations for how to bisect acute and obtuse angles using compass constructions. For an acute angle, the construction creates a rhombus, with the original line and drawn line as the diagonals. For an obtuse angle, the construction creates a kite, with the original line and drawn line as the perpendicular diagonals. Keeping radii sizes consistent ensures the angles are bisected by creating geometric shapes where the diagonals intersect at right angles.

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    The document provides explanations for how to bisect acute and obtuse angles using compass constructions. For an acute angle, the construction creates a rhombus, with the original line and drawn line as the diagonals. For an obtuse angle, the construction creates a kite, with the original line and drawn line as the perpendicular diagonals. Keeping radii sizes consistent ensures the angles are bisected by creating geometric shapes where the diagonals intersect at right angles.

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    WHY DOES IT WORK?

    SOLUTIONS

    TASK 1 Bisect an acute angle

    b ABCD is a rhombus since all the sides are equal but the corners aren’t right angles.
    d Diagonals of rhombuses are perpendicular (they meet at 90).
    e The construction works because by keeping the radii the same, you actually create the four vertices
    of a rhombus. The original line and the line you draw are the diagonals of this rhombus.

    TASK 2 Bisect an obtuse angle

    The following construction shows the bisection of  JKL. The radius of the small arcs is different to
    the radius of the large arc.

    b KJML is a kite since two pairs of adjacent sides are equal.


    d Diagonals of kite are perpendicular (they meet at 90).
    e The construction works because by keeping the radii for pairs of arcs the same, you actually create
    the four vertices of a kite. The original line and the line you draw are the diagonals of this kite.

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