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In the figure, the radius of a circle with centre C is 6 cm, line AB is a tangent at A. Answer the following questions.
What is the measure of `/_CAB?` Why?.

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`/_CAB=90^(@)`
(1) Draw seg CA
`/_CAB+90^(@)" " "………"( " Tangent therom ")"…….(i)"`
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