SOLUTION: Chords, radius and diameter
Given: chord lenght=16
a line from the center to the chord=6
What is the formula to find the diameter?
Thanks...Kayley
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Question 140200: Chords, radius and diameter
Given: chord lenght=16
a line from the center to the chord=6
What is the formula to find the diameter?
Thanks...Kayley
Answer by scott8148(6628) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if the line is from the center of the circle to the center of the chord...it is a perpendicular bisector
the line, half the chord, and the radius form a right triangle; with the radius as the hypotenuse
so 6^2+(16/2)^2=r^2 __ 36+64=r^2 __ 10=r
if the radius is 10, then the diameter is 20
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