If you'd draw the circle, making it tangent to the y-axis, and with center (3,-1), you'd easily be able to find the radius, and then you'd know that C would be the square of the radius.Now draw in the radius from the center (3,-1) over to the y-axis where it's tangent: You can easily tell that radius is 3 units long, so r=3 So the equation: is So now you know that A=3, B=-1 and C=9. Edwin