SOLUTION: you are 18 feet away from a circular water tank and you are 42 feet away from a tangent. What is the radius of the circle?
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Question 760302: you are 18 feet away from a circular water tank and you are 42 feet away from a tangent. What is the radius of the circle?
Found 2 solutions by tommyt3rd, MathTherapy:
Answer by tommyt3rd(5050) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x be the radius of the water tank, then
r=x+18+42
r=x+60
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Answer by MathTherapy(10557) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
you are 18 feet away from a circular water tank and you are 42 feet away from a tangent. What is the radius of the circle?
If what you mean is that the person is 42 feet away from the POINT OF TANGENCY to the circle, then radius of circle, or
r = feet.
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