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The locus of a point which moves such that the sum of the squares of its distances from the three vertices of a triangle is constant, is a circle whose centre is at the
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Let a triangle has its three vertices as (0, 0), ( a , 0), (0, b ). We have the moving point ( h, k ) such that 
Therefore, 
Its centre is 
, which is centroid of 
.
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