Question

Given a line AB of 5 cm. Draw the perpendicular bisector of AB

Answer 1

Hint: From the end points of the line AB, draw two circles of the same radius with radius greater than 2.5 cm. Finally, draw a line connecting the two intersection points of these two circles to get the perpendicular bisector of line AB.

Complete step-by-step answer:
So we will follow the following steps for that:
Step 1: Draw a line segment AB of 5 cm with the help of the scale. As shown in the figure below:

Step 2: Now, with the help of the compass with more than 2.5 cm and draw two circles of the same radius centered at A and B. As shown in the figure below:

Step 3: Now these two circles will intersects at two points, let it be C and D. Next, draw the line between C and D. As shown in the figure below:

Finally the line CD is the perpendicular bisector of the line segment AB.

Note: It is important that we draw the two circles that should be of the same radius. And take the radius after measuring the length of the line segment. The name perpendicular bisector is because then two lines are intersecting at 90 degrees.