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What is the name of the point where all medians of a triangle intersect?

Centroid

In what ratio does the centroid divide each median?

2:12:1

Which segment of a median is larger when divided by the centroid?

Vertex to centroid

What is the centroid also known as in terms of the triangle's physical properties?

Balance point

How is the line joining the midpoints of two sides related to the third side?

Parallel to it

What is the length of the line joining midpoints compared to the third side?

Half the length

How many medians of a triangle meet at the centroid?

Three

If AG=8AG = 8 where GG is the centroid, what is the length of GDGD?

44

If AG=9AG = 9 and GD=4.5GD = 4.5 where GG is the centroid, what is ADAD?

13.513.5

If BC=18BC = 18 and DEDE joins midpoints of ABAB and ACAC, what is DEDE?

99

If DD and EE are midpoints of two sides, DEDE is parallel to the third side and what else?

Half its length

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