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Q: The ancient Greeks were able to construct a perpendicular bisector for a given on segment using a straight edge and compass true or false?
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The ancient Greeks were not able to construct a perpendicular bisector for a given line segment using only a straightedge and compass.?

Not true.


The ancient Greeks were not able to construct a perpendicular bisector for a given line segment using only a straightedge and compass?

FALSE


Using a straightedge and compass the ancient Greeks were able to construct many geometric objects?

True


Could the ancient Greeks bisect an angle using a straight edge?

no they could not


Who wrote the 3 construction problems of antiquity?

The three problems were: * To construct a square with area equal to a given circle ("squaring the circle"). * Given a cube, to construct the edge length of another cube which would have double the volume of the given cube ("duplicating the cube") * Given an arbitrary angle, to construct an angle one third that of the given angle ("angle trisection"). These problems were to be solved using compass and unmarked straight-edge only. It is apparently not known who first proposed these problems. Two of them (squaring the circle and angle trisection) date to at least 100 years before Euclid. The problem of duplicating the cube also predates Euclid, though maybe not by 100 years. In the 19th century, all three problems were shown to be impossible with the restriction to compass and straight-edge. (Despite this, people persist in trying, but they have to be classified as cranks.) Even in ancient times, methods of solution were given, but they used more than just a compass and straight-edge.

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Did the ancient greek require a straightedge and protractor to construct a perpendicular bisector for a given line segment?

Maybe, but a straight edge and a pair of compasses would have probably been used to construct a perpendicular line bisector for a given line segment.


Did the ancient Greeks require a straightedge and protractor to construct a perpendicular bisector for a given line segment?

True


The ancient Greeks were not able to construct a perpendicular bisector for a given line segment using only a straightedge and compass.?

Not true.


The ancient Greeks were not able to construct a perpendicular bisector for a given line segment using only a straightedge and compass?

FALSE


Were The ancient Greeks required a straightedge and protractor to construct a perpendicular bisector for a given line segment?

false apex The Greeks used a straightedge and a compass


True or false Usino a straight edge and compass the ancient Greeks were able to construct many geometric objects?

True.


What was the job of a labourer in ancient Egypt?

To construct pyramids; the pyramids were constructed in Ancient Egypt.


What role does the labourer have in ancient Egypt?

Their role was to construct the pyramids


What materials were used to construct in the ancient times?

swords and cataracts


What does square the circle mean?

to construct (using a compass and straight-edge) a square with the same area as a given circle using only a finite number of steps. "Squaring the circle" was an ancient problem that has been proved impossible to do.


What did the Aztec construct?

The ancient Mayan built pyramids.


How long did it take to construct the ancient Roman Baths of Caracalla?

This immense complex, the Baths of Caracalla, built for the citizens of Rome took only six years to construct.