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What is the equation of this circle?

What is the equation of this circle?-example-1
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Answer:

(x-3)^2+y^2=8

Explanation:

I'm going to go ahead and assume the center is (3,0). The radius can be found by computing the distance from the center, (3,0), to a point on the circle, (5,-2).

The distance between two points is calculated by doing sqrt((distance between x's)^2+(distance between y's)^2).

The distance between our x's is 2.

The distance between our y's is 2.

The square of each then is 4 and 4 respectively.

So we have the distance is sqrt(4+4)=sqrt(8).

The radius is sqrt(8).

The equation of a circle is (x-h)^2+(y-k)^2=r^2 where (h,k) is center and r is radius.

If r=sqrt(8), then r^2=8.

(h,k)=(3,0)

(x-h)^2+(y-k)^2=r^2

(x-3)^2+(y-0)^2=8

(x-3)^2+y^2=8

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