How to Circumscribe a Circle About a Rectangle

Click on the blue points and drag them to change the figure. Click on the point on the slider and drag it to see each step. This also shows that point E is equidistant from points A, B, C, and D.

Manipulative 1 - How to Circumscribe a Rectangle. Created with GeoGebra.

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McAdams, David E. How to Circumscribe a Circle About a Rectangle. 7/18/2018. All Math Words Encyclopedia. Life is a Story Problem LLC. http://www.allmathwords.org/en/h/htcircumscriberectangle.html.

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• All images and manipulatives are by David McAdams unless otherwise stated. All images by David McAdams are Copyright © Life is a Story Problem LLC and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Revision History

7/16/2018: Removed broken links, updated license, implemented new markup, implemented new Geogebra protocol. (McAdams, David E.)
1/11/2010: Added reference to drawing the perpendicular bisector of a line segment. (McAdams, David E.)
7/5/2008: Removed broken links, updated license, implemented new markup, implemented new Geogebra protocol. (McAdams, David E.)
7/3/2008: Initial version. (McAdams, David E.)