The diagram represents a plot of land, EFGH, which is to be used for an observatory.

- (a)
Construct the bisector of the angle EHG.
- (b)
Construct the perpendicular bisector of EF.
- (c)
A café is to be built in the observatory, nearer to E than to F and nearer to GH than to EH.
Shade the region where the café is to be built.
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17(a)
1. Construct equal arcs from the vertex $H$ on both arms of the angle.
With centre , draw an arc cutting at and at .
2. Locate a point on the angle bisector and draw the bisector.
With centres and and the same radius, draw arcs to meet at inside . Join to . The line is the required angle bisector.
The angle bisector of is the ray from drawn between and so that it divides into two equal angles.
17(b)
1. Construct two equal-radius arcs from $E$ and $F$ to locate points equidistant from $E$ and $F$.
Set the compass radius to more than half of . With centre , draw arcs above and below . Using the same radius and centre , draw arcs to cut the first pair of arcs at two points.
2. Draw the perpendicular bisector through the two arc intersection points.
Join the two points of intersection of the arcs with a straight line. This line is the perpendicular bisector of .
The perpendicular bisector of is the straight line through the midpoint of and at right angles to .
17(c)
1. Identify and shade the region satisfying both distance conditions.
From part (b), the perpendicular bisector of divides the plot into points nearer to and points nearer to . Keep the side containing .
From part (a), the angle bisector of divides the points inside into points nearer to and points nearer to . Keep the side nearer to .
Shade the overlap of these two regions inside quadrilateral .
Shade the part of the plot that is on the side of the perpendicular bisector of and on the side of the angle bisector of .
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