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Given: DC is a tangent of E. AE = 20 and DC = 9.

What is the measure of AC?

Given: DC is a tangent of E. AE = 20 and DC = 9. What is the measure of AC?-example-1
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You can solve this using the Pythagorean Theorem. The length of AD = 40 and the length of DC = 6. These are your two legs. Square both and then add them together. Then take the square root to get your answer.
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