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Assignment 8: Orthocenters

For assignment #8 I chose to investigate the relationship between line segments drawn from an orthocenter of a triangle to it's vertices. The claim that I have found using GSP and through some leading from the assignment itself, is that: HD/AD + HE/BE + HF/CF = 1 for all acute triangles. Below is a JavaSketchPad to help the reader investigate the claim for oneself.

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However, simply taking a GSP measurement will not suffice as a proof. The proof of this claim is as follows:


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