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Mathematics
Experiment #10
Order Out
of Chaos?
Pick
any 4 points on the coordinate plane. Connect them to form a quadrilateral.
Using construction techniques, find the midpoints of each of the sides.
Connect these midpoints. Do this at least 10 different times with different
choices for the original 4 points of the quadrilateral. Is there a pattern?
Is there a theorem for this? Can you prove it?

Is
this true in other cases? Try at least twenty different random configurations
of lines and points.