SOLUTION: Please help me solve this problem: What is the radius for the circle with a center at(-3, 4) and passes through the point (-6, 7)?

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Question 472464: Please help me solve this problem: What is the radius for the circle with a center at(-3, 4) and passes through the point (-6, 7)?
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
the distance between these two points is a radius
Solved by pluggable solver: Distance Formula to determine length on coordinate plane
The distance (d) between two points is given by the following formula:



Thus in our case, the required distance is



For more on this concept, refer to Distance formula.


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