SOLUTION: Find the area of a circle in which a chord AB is 48 cm and the perpendicular bisector of the chord, originating at the centre of the circle, is 10 cm.

Question 953020: Find the area of a circle in which a chord AB is 48 cm and the perpendicular bisector of the chord, originating at the centre of the circle, is 10 cm.
Answer by macston(5194) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The perpendicular bisector and 1/2 of the chord are legs of a right triangle with the radius of the circle as hypotenuse, so:

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