SOLUTION: find the length of the chord which is at a distance of5cm from in center of a circle whose radius is 10cm

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Question 959334: find the length of the chord which is at a distance of5cm from in center of a circle whose radius is 10cm
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
find the length of the chord which is at a distance of5cm from in
center of a circle whose radius is 10cm


Let the length of the chord be x.  Then half x is above the horizontal
radius and half of it below.

By the Pythagorean theorem,







Multiply both sides by 4



Taking positive square roots of both sides:









That's approximately 17.32050808 cm

Edwin
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