A secant is a line which intersects the circle at two distinct points and the line segment between the points is a chord.

What is the name of a line which intersects a circle at two distinct points?

A Tangent to a circle is a line which touches the circle at only one point.

A line intersecting a circle in two points is called a secant .

What is the name given to a line intersecting a circle in two points ?

Two distinct lines cannot have more than one point in common.

Find the slope of a line, which passes through the origin, and the mid-point of the line segment joining the points P (0,- 4) and B (8,0).

Find the mid point of the line segment joining the points (3, 0) and (-1, 4)

The circle x^2+y^2 =4x+8y+5 intersects the line 3x-4y=m at two distinct points if :

Two circles of radii 5 cm and 3 cm intersect at two points and the distance between their centres is 4 cm, Find the length of the common chord.

The co- ordinates of the mid - point of the line segment joining the points (2,3) and (4,7) is :