What is the length of the tangent line in the picture?
1 answer:
Answer:
x = -2
Step-by-step explanation:
The tangent line has length "x + 8"
The secant line has length "x + 6 + 5", where
5 is the inner part
x + 6 is the outer part
Now,
the secant-tangent theorem tells us that square of the tangent line is equal to the outer segment of secant line multiplied by length of whole secant line.
So, we can say:
We can solve for x shown below:
The value of x is -2
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