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Chord BC is drawn in a circle with a radius of 3cm. Chord BS is 4cm long. Find the perpendicular distance from A to chord BC
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Answered by Reiny
make a sketch and you should see a nice right-angled triangle with base of 3, hypotenuse of 3
Use Pythagoras to find the height.
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