Special Points of a Triangle
Special Points of a Triangle: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Special Points in Triangle, Incentre of a Triangle, Coordinates of Incentre, Property of Incentre, Excentre of a Triangle, Circumcentre of a Triangle, Coordinates of Circumcentre, etc.
Important Questions on Special Points of a Triangle
Let be the median of the triangle with vertices and . The equation of the line passing through and parallel to is

Two vertices of a triangle are and If orthocentre of the triangle is the origin, find the coordinates of the third vertex.

Find the excenter opposite to vertex of triangle with vertices .

Find the excenter opposite to vertex of triangle with vertices .

is an equilateral triangle with vertices , and . Find co-ordinates of incenter of .

is an equilateral triangle with vertices , and . Find co-ordinates of incenter of .

is an equilateral triangle with vertices , and . Find co-ordinates of incenter of .

The incentre of the triangle with vertices , and is

The orthocentre of the triangle with vertices and is

The orthocentre of the triangle with vertices and is

The bisectors of angles and of a scalene triangle meet at What is the point called? Incentre Incircle Circumcircle.

Perpendicular bisectors of the sides and of a triangle meet at . What do you call the point ? Circumcenter Circumradius Circumcircle.

The point that is equidistant from the vertices of the triangle is called

The equation of the line joining the centroid with the orthocentre of the triangle formed by the points is

In an isosceles and is midpoint of . Prove that circumcentre, in centre, orthocentre and centroid all are collinear.

The triangle whose orthocentre, circumcentre and incentre coincide is known as

Let be a variable triangle such that , and lie on the line (where is a variable). The locus of the orthocentre of triangle is a straight line. Find -intercept of that straight line.

If and are vertices of a triangle such that then

If the sides of a triangle be along the lines and where
then which of the following point(s) for given triangle must have necessarily rational coordinates?

Let the straight lines, and form a triangle with the axis. Then the radius of the circle circumscribing this triangle is:
