document.write( "Question 613306: Suppose the diameter of a circle is 26 ft. long and a chord is 10 ft. long. Find the distance from the center of the circle to the chord. Show your work.
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represent the center of the circle. Let

and

be the endpoints of the 10ft chord. Construct a radius that is the perpendicular bisector of the chord. Name the point of intersection of the radius and the chord

. Construct another radius through point

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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Since the radius through

is a bisector of

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is a right triangle. Since

, which is the hypotenuse of the right triangle, is a radius,

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