SOLUTION: Find the distance from the center of a circle to a chord 30m long if the diameter of the circle is 34?

Question 1157252: Find the distance from the center of a circle to a chord 30m long if the diameter of the circle is 34?

Answer by josgarithmetic(39623) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
That would mean, half the chord i 15 m and half the diameter of the circle is 17 m. If you try to draw this circle, chord, and radii, you can find a right triangle with leg 15 m, and hypotenuse 17 m, and the right angle is opposite the 17 m hypotenuse. Pythagorean Theorem for finding the other leg, which is distance asked for.

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