SOLUTION: How do you find the circumcenter of the triangle ABC? A(-8,-6)B(-3,3)C(-8,3)

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Question 1014581: How do you find the circumcenter of the triangle ABC?
A(-8,-6)B(-3,3)C(-8,3)
Answer by ikleyn(52925) About Me  (Show Source):
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If you make a sketch, you will see that this triangle is right-angled with the legs AC and BC.
The hypotenuse is AB.

For any right-angled triangle the center of its circumscribed circle is the middle point of its hypotenuse.

Therefore the answer to your question is the point (-5.5, -1.5).