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The general equation for a circle, 
, falls out of the Pythagorean Theorem, which states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is always equal to the sum of the squares of its legs (you might have seen this fact written like 
, where <em>a </em>and <em>b</em> are the legs of a right triangle and <em>c </em>is its hypotenuse. When we fix <em /><em>c</em> in place and let <em>a </em>and <em>b </em>vary (in a sense, at least; their values are still dependent on <em>c</em>), the shape swept out by all of those possible triangles is a circle - a shape defined by having all of its points equidistant from some center.
How do we modify this equation to shift the circle and change its radius, then? Well, if we want to change the radius, we simply have to change the hypotenuse of the triangle that's sweeping out the circle in the first place. The default for a circle is 1, but we're looking for a radius of 6, so our equation, in line with Pythagorus's, would look like
, or 
.
Shifting the center of the circle is a bit of a longer story, but - at first counterintuitively - you can move a circle's center to the point (a,b) by altering the x and y portions of the equation to read:
How do we modify this equation to shift the circle and change its radius, then? Well, if we want to change the radius, we simply have to change the hypotenuse of the triangle that's sweeping out the circle in the first place. The default for a circle is 1, but we're looking for a radius of 6, so our equation, in line with Pythagorus's, would look like
Shifting the center of the circle is a bit of a longer story, but - at first counterintuitively - you can move a circle's center to the point (a,b) by altering the x and y portions of the equation to read:
The basic idea is that multiplying by 10 just moves the decimal point one place to the right. It makes the number bigger.
4.8 x 10 = 48
4.8 x 10 x 10 = 48 x 10 = 480
Each time you multiply by another 10, the decimal point moves one more time.
The expression says you're going to multiply by 10 five times in a row. So that will move the decimal point 5 places to the right.
So what do you get if you move the decimal in 4.8 five places to the right?