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Center Circle

Center Circle

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Mathematics

10th Grade

Hard

Created by

Joseph Anderson

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10 Slides • 6 Questions

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Finding the Center of a Circle

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Multiple Choice

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What is CD?

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Chord

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Secant

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Tangent

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Line

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The Perpendicular Bisector

  • Draw a chord on the circle.

  • Cut this in half!

  • It needs to be PERPENDICULAR

  • The perpendicular bisector runs through the center

  • GeoGebra has a tool to do this for you.

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Click on first point and then second point

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Center?

Somewhere on the perpendicular bisector is the center.

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Multiple Choice

How might you find the center?

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Construct a different perpendicular bisector

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Cut the bisector in half

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Guess

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The intersection of the chord and the perpendicular bisector

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Make 2 Perpendicular Bisectors

If each chord's perpendicular bisector goes through the center...then any 2 will meet at the center.

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Use the intersect tool in GeoGebra

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Fill in the Blanks

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Type answer...

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Multiple Choice

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What is the length of chord CD?

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3

2

6

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12

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36

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Multiple Choice

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Line segment CD is 18 units. What is the length of ED?

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18

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24

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9

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36

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Multiple Choice

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What point is the center of the circle?

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L

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M

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I

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K

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F

Finding the Center of a Circle

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