SOLUTION: if a diameter of a circle does not bisect a chord, is it perpendicular to the chord?
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Question 288169: if a diameter of a circle does not bisect a chord, is it perpendicular to the chord?
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if a diameter of a circle does not bisect a chord, is it perpendicular to the chord?
By a theorem we know that a diameter perpendicular to a chord is a bisector of the chord. The "contrapositive" of this statement is that if a diameter does not bisect the chord then it is not perpenducular to the chord.
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