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Geometry

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Altitude of a triangle   A straight line through a vertex and perpendicular to (i.e. forming a right angle with) a line containing the base (the opposite side) of a triangle  
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Angle bisector theorem   Concerned with the relative lengths of the two segments that a triangle's side is divided into by a line that bisects the opposite angle. It equates their relative lengths to the relative lengths of the other two sides of the triangle.  
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Arc   A closed segment (symbol: ⌒) of a differentiable curve in the two-dimensional plane  
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Area   Any particular extent of space or surface. A=L*W (Always write area in #measure squared).  
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Center of a polygon   In a rotation, the point that does not move. The rest of the plane rotates around this one fixed point.  
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Centroid of a triangle   The point where the three medians of the triangle intersect  
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Circumcenter of a triangle   The point where the three perpendicular bisectors of a triangle meet  
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Circumference (circles)   A complete circular arc; also the distance around the outside of a circle. C=Pi*r(r).  
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Circumscribed   A geometric figure that is drawn around another geometric figure so as to touch all its vertices  
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Combination   A way of selecting several things out of a larger group, where (unlike permutations) order does not matter.  
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Compass   An instrument for drawing circles and arcs and measuring distances between points, consisting of two arms linked by a movable joint.  
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Composition   The combining of distinct parts or elements to form a whole  
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Compound event   An event whose probability of occurrence depends upon the probability of occurrence of two or more independent events  
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Compression   To reduce a shape in size while retaining proportions  
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Conditional probability   The probability that an event will occur, when another event is known to occur or to have occurred  
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Conditional probability formula   The conditional probability of A given B is denoted by P(A|B) and defined by the formula P(A|B) = P(AB) P(B), provided P(B) > 0.  
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Dependent events   When the outcome of one event affects the outcome of another.  
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Dilation   A transformation that grows or shrinks a polygon by a given proportion about a center point  
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Events   A set of outcomes of an experiment (a subset of the sample space) to which a probability is assigned  
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Experimental probability   The ratio of the number of times the event occurs to the total number of trials  
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Frequency table   Lists items and uses tally marks to record and show the number of times they occur  
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Fundamental counting principle   When there are m ways to do one thing, and n ways to do another, then there are m×n ways of doing both.  
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Glide reflection   A transformation in which a graph or geometric figure is picked up and moved to another location without any change in size or orientation  
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Glide reflectional symmetry   The symmetry that a figure has if it can be made to fit exactly onto the original when it is translated a given distance at a given direction and then reflected over a line.  
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Hypotenuse-leg theorem (HL theorem)   If the hypotenuse and leg of a right triangle are congruent to the hypotenuse and leg of another right triangle, then the triangles are congruent.  
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Image   An optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction formed by a lens or mirror  
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Incenter of a triangle   The point where the three angle bisectors of a triangle meet  
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Included angle   The angle made by two lines with a common vertex  
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Independent events   When the outcome of one event does not influence the outcome of thesecond event  
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Inscribed in (the triangle)   Drawing one shape inside a triangle so that it just touches the sides of the triangle  
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Intersection   The probability that events A and B both will occur  
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Isometry   A transformation that is invariant with respect to distance. That is, the distance between any two points in the pre-image must be the same as the distance between the images of the two points.  
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Median of a triangle   A line segment joining a vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposing side  
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Midsegment of a triangle   The segment joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle  
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Mutually exclusive events   Two events that cannot occur at the same time  
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n factorial   The factorial of a natural number n is the product of the positive integers less than or equal to n.  
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Non-included angle   The side of a triangle that is not included by two given angles  
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Ordered triple   Three numbers written in the form (x, y, z)  
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n-tuple   n numbers written in the form (x1, x2, x3, . . . , xn)  
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Orthocenter of a triangle   The point where the three altitudes of a triangle intersect  
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Overlap   Similar triangles in which one triangle is on top of (overlapping) another triangle  
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Permutation   All possible arrangements of a collection of things, where the order is important  
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Point of symmetry   A special center point for certain kinds of symmetric figures or graphs. If a figure or graph can be rotated 180° about a point P and end up looking identical to the original, then P is a point of symmetry.  
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Polygon angle-sum theorem, corollary   The measure of each interior angle of a regular n-gon is 180*(n–2)/n)  
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Polygon exterior angle-sum theorem   If a polygon is convex, then the sum of the measures of the exterior angles, one at each vertex, is 360.  
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Preimage   The original figure prior to a transformation.  
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Probability distribution   A graph, table, or formula that gives the probability for each value of the random variable  
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Probability formula   The number of ways an event can occur divided by the total number of possible outcomes  
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Relative frequency   The ratio of the actual number of favorable events to the total possible  
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Remote interior angles   The two angles of a triangle that are not adjacent to the exterior angle, which is drawn by extending one of the sides.  
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Rigid motion   The variance in position and orientation when a rigid body moves  
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Sample space   In probability theory, the set of all possible outcomes or results of an experiment  
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Tessellation   A plane with identically shaped pieces that do not overlap or leave blank spaces. The pieces do not have to be oriented identically. A tessellation may use tiles of one, two, three, or any finite number of shapes.  
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Theoretical probability   The likelihood of an event happening based on all the possible outcomes  
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Transformation   Operations that alter the form of a figure. The standard transformations are translations, reflections, dilations (stretches), compressions (contractions or shrinks), and rotations.  
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Tree diagram   A representation of a tree structure in which the probability of each branch is written on the branch and the outcome is written at the end of the branch  
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Volume (prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones, spheres)   The total amount of space enclosed in a solid. (Always write volume in #measure cubed).  
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