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document.write( "My drawing below will likely show up on your screen larger than yours \r\n" );
document.write( "will be.\r\n" );
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document.write( "1. Using your ruler, draw PQ, measuring it\r\n" );
document.write( "to be 9.5 cm.\r\n" );
document.write( "2. Using your ruler, open compass to 8.5 cm.\r\n" );
document.write( "With sharp point of your compass on P, swing\r\n" );
document.write( "an arc about where you think R will be.\r\n" );
document.write( "3. Using your ruler, open compass to 9.8 cm.\r\n" );
document.write( "With sharp point of your compass on Q, swing\r\n" );
document.write( "an arc intersecting the arc in step 2. The\r\n" );
document.write( "point where they intersect will be R.\r\n" );
document.write( "4. Draw PR\r\n" );
document.write( "5. Draw QR\r\n" );
document.write( "6. With your protractor, measure angle PQR.\r\n" );
document.write( "(I got 52°)\r\n" );
document.write( "7. Open compass an arbitrary amount, a\r\n" );
document.write( "little more than half of PR.\r\n" );
document.write( "8. With sharp point of your compass on P,\r\n" );
document.write( "swing two arcs, one on each side of PR\r\n" );
document.write( "9. Keeping your compass opened the same\r\n" );
document.write( "amount, move the sharp point to R and swing\r\n" );
document.write( "two arcs intersecting the other two arcs\r\n" );
document.write( "from step 8.\r\n" );
document.write( "10. Draw a line through the intersections of\r\n" );
document.write( "the two arcs. That's the green line in the\r\n" );
document.write( "drawing above. That is the perpendicular\r\n" );
document.write( "bisector of PR.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin
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