Steps: The equation of a circle is (x – h)² <span>+ (y – k)</span>²<span> = r</span>²; since we are trying to find the radius we are going to focus on the r². Now if you look the equation has the 36 filled in as the r² so r² = 36; we now have to isolate the r to get the radius, how do we get the radius? We Square root the r² and 36. After we get r = 6, The radius is 6 units
Equilateral triangles have 3 congruent sides, so all 3 sides have the same length. Therefore, we know that . We are given the lengths of all 3 sides in terms of , but we only need to set two of them equal to each other to solve for . Let's use and to solve for . We know that , , and . Therefore, we can write the following equation to solve for
(Substitute given values into equation)
Solving for , we get:
(Subtract from both sides of the equation to isolate constants)
(Simplify)
(Subtract from both sides of the equation to isolate )
(Simplify)
(Divide both sides of the equation by to get rid of 's coefficient)