SOLUTION: an isosceles right triangle is inscribed in a circle.
Find the radius of the circle if one leg of the triangle is 8 cm.
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Question 1018726: an isosceles right triangle is inscribed in a circle.
Find the radius of the circle if one leg of the triangle is 8 cm.
Answer by ikleyn(52818) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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an isosceles right triangle is inscribed in a circle.
Find the radius of the circle if one leg of the triangle is 8 cm.
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Any right-angled triangle inscribed into the circle has the diameter as the hypotenuse.
Therefore, in our case the diameter of the circle is = = cm.
Hence, the radius is half of that, i.e. cm.
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