Something to Think About

If the triangle were not isosceles, then would an angle bisector cut the opposite side in half? For example, if  and  bisects  then is it still true that ?

The answer is no as you might notice from the diagram.  We will see in a later lesson after we discuss similar figures that  and  are proportional in the same way that the sides  and  are.

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