Lesson 3.6Prove Theorems

about Perpendicular Lines

Objective

• Find the distance between a point and a line

Standard

• 7.0 – Students prove and use theorems involving the properties of parallel lines cut by a transversal

Academic Language

• Distance from a point to a line

Example

Example

Distance from a point to a line

• The distance from a point to a line is the length of the perpendicular segment from the point to the line

Prove

Homework

• p.194 #1, 4, 6, 7, 22, 23, 31, 45