Question

AB is a chord of a circle of radius 5cm the distance of AB from the centre is 3cm then AB is?​

Answer 1

8 cm

Explanation:

We first want to draw a diagram with the given information.

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We then see we have a right triangle. What is a theorem that is commonly associated with right triangles?

So we use the pythagorean theorem to find the missing leg of the triangle has a length of 4 cm. But how does this help us? Well, when finding the distance from the center of a circle to a chord, we always find the line that is perpendicular to the chord and divides it in half (and passes through the center), and find the length.

So, the leg of length 4 we just found? That's half of our answer.

Since 4 × 2 = 8, we know that the length of AB is 8 cm.