Question

Find the radius of a circle in which a 24 cm chord is 4 cm closer to the center than a 16 cm chord. Round your answer to the nearest tenth.

Answer 1

The diagram representing the scenario is shown below

A represents the center of the circle. It divided each chord equally. Thus, we have CB = 16/2 = 8 for the shorter chord and DE = 24/2 = 12 for the longer chord

Assuming the distance between the

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