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Use a square from your geometry set to locate the centre of this circle. Describe the steps you took.

asked Sep 10, 2015 in PRECALCULUS by anonymous
edited Sep 10, 2015 by bradely

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Find the center of the circle using the circumscribing the circle method.

Step 1:

Draw the square outside the circle in such a way that each of the four sides touches the circle at only one point.

The line touches the circle at and . 

The square thus formed is .

Step 2:

Join the opposite vertices of the square which forms the diagonals of the square.

The diagonals such formed are and .

Step 3:

The intersection point of these two diagonals is required center .

Above steps are illustrated in the figure.

answered Sep 10, 2015 by cameron Mentor

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