is it like only in the degrees??? like for perpendicular 90 but for angle bisector it doen't matter????? am i right??? is that it???
2007-09-08 17:00:02 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
No, no. The difference is that an angle bisector is, as the name suggests, a ray that bisects an _angle_. A perpendicular bisector is a line that bisects a _line segment_, and additionally happens to be perpendicular to that line segment. They bisect different objects, which is a much larger difference than just the degrees.
2007-09-08 17:15:20 · answer #1 · answered by Pascal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They're pretty different, in terms of what has them and what gets halved.
A perpendicular bisector is something a line segment has. The perpendicular bisector of a line segment goes through the segment's midpoint and is at a 90 degree angle to the segment. Here "bisector" means half the length.
An angle bisector is something an angle has. It's a line through the same point of the angle that's exactly halfway between the two angle sides. So here "bisector" means half the angle.
2007-09-08 17:15:55 · answer #2 · answered by brashion 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't a perpendicular bisector be 45 degrees and a angle bisector vary with the degrees of the angle? For instance, if the angle was 60 degrees, the bisector would be 30 degrees.
2007-09-08 17:28:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a perpendicular bisector is a line that crosses another line and an angle bisector is a line the cuts the angle in half
2016-05-20 00:43:13 · answer #4 · answered by ciara 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What Is A Bisector
2016-10-01 11:10:41 · answer #5 · answered by wojtowicz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋