SOLUTION: You are standing 50 feet from the center of a circular swimming pool. The distance from you to a point of tangency is 25 feet. What is the approximate radius of the pool? Round t
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Question 1157898: You are standing 50 feet from the center of a circular swimming pool. The distance from you to a point of tangency is 25 feet. What is the approximate radius of the pool? Round to the nearest tenth.
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You are standing 50 feet from the center of a circular swimming pool.
The distance from you to a point of tangency is 25 feet.
What is the approximate radius of the pool? Round to the nearest tenth.
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At the point of tangency a right angle between the radius and the line tangent to where you are standing,
therefore
r^2 + 25^2 = 50^2
r^2 = 2500 - 625
r =
r = 43.3 ft is the radius
You can put this solution on YOUR website! You are standing 50 feet from the center of a circular swimming pool. The distance from you to a point of tangency is 25 feet. What is the approximate radius of the pool? Round to the nearest tenth.
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The angle between the radius and any tangent line is 90 degs --> a right triangle.
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50 feet is the hypotenuse of the right triangle.
