SOLUTION: Suppose that a circle has an equation of the form x^2 + y^2 =r^2, r>0. What is the center of the circle? What is the radius of the circle? I am lost since there aren't any numb

Question 213444: Suppose that a circle has an equation of the form x^2 + y^2 =r^2, r>0. What is the center of the circle? What is the radius of the circle?
I am lost since there aren't any numbers to plug into the equation....
Found 2 solutions by rapaljer, drj:
Answer by rapaljer(4671) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The center is at (0,0) and the radius is r. That's it!!

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Answer by drj(1380) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Suppose that a circle has an equation of the form x^2 + y^2 =r^2, r>0. What is the center of the circle? What is the radius of the circle?

Step 1. Note this is a distance equation using the Pythagorean Theorem.

Step 2. Note the square of the distance between two points (x,y) and (xc,yc) is:

where is the distance or radius.

Step 3. Note that (xc,yc) is the center of a circle. For this example (xc,yc)=(0,0)

I hope the above steps were helpful.

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Respectfully,
Dr J

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