FIRST-PERSON TO HELP GETS 70 POINTS!!!! Can I get some help, please? DUE IN A FEW MINUTES!!!
2 answers:
You might be interested in
No, it is not.
That specific question is named the Delian Problem, where supposedly, Apollo, the Greek god, had asked for his altar to be doubled in size to stop a plague going around. The builders only had a compass and straightedge, but they couldn't figure out how to double the volume. The reason they couldn't was because there was no way to construct multiples of , which was what was needed to double the volume.
This problem is one called the impossible problems from antiquity, or problems the ancient Greeks could not solve with only a compass and a straightedge. Another example of one of these problems is how to trisect an angle.
First we compute the distance between the center and the given point which is exactly the radius
r =
Now that we know the center and the radius, we can write the equation of a circle with given radius and center:
where (h,k) represent the coordinates of the center (3,7).
We substitute and obtain