A circle passes through the points , and . What is its radius?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C.
- Step 1: The angle at the origin between the -axis and the -axis is a right angle, and an angle in a semicircle is a right angle (converse), so the segment joining and is a diameter.
- Step 2: Its length is , so the radius is half of that: .
Answer
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Why not the others: is the diameter; is half of , not of ; and do not equal .
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