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What is the distance between two parallel tangents of a circle having dradius 4 . 5 cm . Justify your answer
Given :
(i) A circle with center O and radius 4.5 cm .
(ii) Line l is tangent to the circle at point A
(iii) Line m is tangent to the circle at point B

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`:.` Radius of the circle is 6 units .
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