Triangle Centers

Centroid

The centroid of a triangle is the common intersection of the three medians.

The centroid of a triangle is denoted by G.

 

A median of a triangle is the segment from a vertex to the midpoint of the opposite side.

 

Click here for a GSP script for a centroid given any three points (the vertices of the triangle).


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