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1. Bisectors of Triangles
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Exercise 30 Page 330

It is given that is the incenter of the triangle By definition, an incenter is the point of intersection of the three angle bisectors of a triangle. Hence, and are the angle bisectors of
First, let's consider It is a bisector of so angles and are congruent. Thus, the measure of is also
Now, we can find the measure of By the Angle Addition Postulate, its measure equals the sum of and
Now we are going to consider It is a bisector of the angle so and are congruent. Therefore, also measures
We can find the measure of by adding the measures of and
Now that we know two of the angles measures in and we can use the Angle Sum Theorem. This theorem tells us that the angle measures in any triangle add up to
Now we will consider the last bisector, It bisects the angle so and are congruent angles. This means that their measures are the same.
We can use this to write an equation that relates the bisected angles to the larger angle. Also, we earlier found that measures
Let's solve it!
Therefore, the measure of as well as is Note that and are both names for the same angle. Hence, the answer is