Example 4

Author:Walch Education

Topic:Centroid or Barycenter

Using

from Example 3, which has vertices

,

, and

, verify that the centroid is

the distance from each vertex.

Identify the known information.
Use the distance formula to show that point is the distance from each vertex.

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