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3 Practice: Modeling: Constructing a Square Practice

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YOUR ASSIGNMENT: Garden Party

Francesca is planning a new garden for her community center. She wants her design
to include two of her favorite shapes: the square and the circle. She wants to have
two different types of flowers in the garden and to arrange them in a square that is
inscribed in a circle. You will use the Compass Tool to bring her design to life.

Creating the circle

1. Let's start the design. First, mark the center of the circle by making a tiny dot with
the Compass Tool.

2. Next, place the center of the Compass Tool on the dot you made. Draw the circle.

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3. Switch to the Straightedge. Using the blue pencil, draw a horizontal line through
your dot in the center of the circle. Sketch the result below. (4 points: 2 points for the
circle, 2 points for the diameter)

Constructing the perpendicular bisector

4. Now, select the blue pencil in the Compass Tool and create a perpendicular
bisector of the diameter of your circle. Place the center of the compass on one of the
points where the diameter intersects the circle. Adjust the compass so that the pencil
tip extends beyond the center of the circle. Draw an arc through the circle. Repeat this

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on the other side without changing the radius of your compass tool. Using the
straightedge tool, draw a line through the intersections of the two arcs. (8 points: 4
points for correctly constructing the arcs, 4 points for constructing the bisector)

Drawing the square

5. Using the Straightedge and the black pencil, connect each of the endpoints of the
perpendicular diameters to the endpoints on either side of it. Sketch the result below.
(4 points: 1 point for each diagonal)

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Is it a square?

6. How can you be certain that the angles you have created form a square inside the
circle? (4 points for a thorough explanation)
i followed the directions correctly, and the angles are all identical to a square, the circles diameter is also
smaller than the squares.

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