SOLUTION: What is the symmetries if any, of the equation x^2 + y^2=36

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Question 104562: What is the symmetries if any, of the equation x^2 + y^2=36
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The equation describes a circle center at (0,0) with a radius of 6.
Any line that goes through the origin is a line of symmetry for this circle, that is, there are an infinite number of symmetric lines for this circle.
Examples are the x axis, the y axis, and the line shown below, y=1/2x.