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Construction of Rhombus

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While constructing a perpendicular bisector, the arcs must be drawn with radious greater than half the length of the line segment.

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Similar triangles

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Congruent triangles

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Solution

The correct option is A
Similar triangles

If the arcs are drawn with radius less than half the length of the line segment; the arcs does not intersect and the perpendicular bisector cannot be drawn. So the radius must be greater than half the length of the line segment.

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