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A cell tower is 3km from the highway. It has a circular range with a radius of 7km. What length of the highway is in the range.

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Explanation:

With questions like this it is helpful to draw the scenario as in the image below. Using Pyhtagorean theorem , you can calculate 'x'..... then the highway distance in range is two times this = 12.6 km

A cell tower is 3km from the highway. It has a circular range with a radius of 7km-example-1
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