if you draw an 8.5 inch horizontal segment across a piece of paper (portrait view) then fold it vertically down the middle, what is the length of the two new segments created by the fold as it is the bisector?

Answer 1

When you draw an 8.5-inch horizontal segment and then fold the paper vertically down the middle, the fold acts as a bisector of the original segment. Each half of the segment will be divided evenly.

Since the original segment is 8.5 inches long, when you fold it in half, each new segment created by the fold will be:

\[ \frac{8.5 , \text{inches}}{2} = 4.25 , \text{inches} \]

Therefore, the length of each of the two new segments created by the fold is 4.25 inches.