Question

The ancient greeks required a straightedge and a protractor to construct a perpendicular bisector for a given line segment.

Answer 1

Answer: False

Step-by-step explanation:

The ancient Greeks required a straightedge and a compass to construct a perpendicular bisector for a given line segment.

They made perpendicular bisector by using following steps.

Let given a line segment XY, then to construct the perpendicular bisector.

Step 1)Draw a circle centered at X and passing through point Y.

Step2)Draw a circle centered at Y and passing through point B.

Step3)The two circles intersect at two points (above and below of line segment XY). Draw the line through these two points. This line is the perpendicular bisector to XY.