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Here are the steps in the construction:
- Select the macro generation tool . Notice the icon changes to ,
indicating that you are to provide the inputs for your macro. Below the
construction window, you are prompted "Macro Parameters: Parameter
objects?"
- As
parameters, select C, A and then B. Click the macro icon once more. The
icon changes to , indicating that you should provide the targets (i.e.
outputs) for your macro.
- As a target, select the angle bisector (green ray). Click the macro icon once more. The "Define Macro" dialog box will appear.
- In
the dialog, name the macro "angle bisector" . In the "Macro Comment"
box type in "calculates angle bisector from three points on an angle".
Make sure "Hide construction" and "Hide Duplicates" are both checked.
- In
the first three "Parameter Prompt(s)" boxes type: "Point on one of the
angle", "Angle vertex", "Point on other side of the angle". (This
step is optional: these prompts will display when the macro is run).
- Click "OK" at the bottom of the "Define Macro" dialog box to close it.
- Next,
right click in the construction window and select the macro you just
created. Create an angle bisector for angle <ABC by selecting first point A, then B, then C.
- As in the
previous step, create the third angle bisector for the triangle. The three angle bisectors should intersect at a
single point, which is -- the incenter!
- Use the Perpendicular line tool and create a perpendicular line to line AC going through the incenter.
- Select
the Circle tool .
With the intersection of the angle bisector lines as
center, create a circle that contains the intersection of the
perpendicular line and line AC. Notice that the circle is indeed
inscribed in the
triangle!
Solution
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