find the length of the tangent drawn to a circle of radius 8 cm from a point which is a distance of 10 cm from the centre of the circle.
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6cm
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as a tangent is perpendicular to the radius at the point of touch,so 10cm is hypoteneus and 8cm is one side of a rt angled triangle,so by pythagorus theorem ,length of tangent is sq root of (10)sq _(8)sq
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