What term describes a line segment that connects a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side ?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-03T00:44:06

This is called a median of the triangle.

There are two big things to know about medians of a triangle:

1) There are three, one corresponding to each vertex with its opposite side.

2) Despite there being three of them, they all intersect at the same point which is called the centroid of the triangle.