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Use what you know about tangent lines to circles to solve for x

Use what you know about tangent lines to circles to solve for x-example-1
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X=5
Since both lines are tanget meaning the only touch the circle once, both sides will be the same we can set up an equation 33=x^2+8 which is 25=x^2 and square root both sides to get 5 equals x
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