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Draw a circle and a secant PQ of the circle on a paper as shown below. Draw various lines parallel to the secant on both sides of it . What happens to the length of chord coming closer to the centre of the circle ?

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VGS PUBLICATION-BRILLIANT-TANGENTS AND SECANTS TO A CIRCLE-EXERCISE
  1. How many tangents you can draw to circle from a point away from it ?

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  2. In the below figure which are tangents to the given circles ?

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  3. Draw a circle and a secant PQ of the circle on a paper as shown below....

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  4. What is the longest chord ?

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  5. How many tangnets can you draw to a circle , which are parallel to eac...

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  6. How can you prove the converse of the above theorem. "If a line in ...

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  7. We can draw ………… tangents to a given circle .

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  8. A tangent to a circle intersects it in ………. Point (s) .

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  9. A line intersecting a circle in two points is called a ………..

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  10. Number of tangents drawn to a circle is ………..

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  11. The common point to a tangent and a circle is called …..

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  12. We can draw ………… tangents to a given circle .

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  13. Fill in the blanks. A circle can have parallel……………tangents at the mos...

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  14. Fill in the blanks A tangent PQ at a point P of a circle of radius 5...

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  15. Draw a circle and two lines parallel to a give such that one is a tang...

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  16. Calculate the length of tangent from a point 15 cm away from the centr...

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  17. Prove that the tangnets to a circle at the end points of a diameter ar...

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  18. Use Pythagoras theorem and write proof of above theorem " the lengths ...

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  19. Draw a pair of radii OA and OB such that angleBOA=120^(@) . Draw the ...

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  20. Draw a pair of tangents to circle of radius 5 cm which are inclined to...

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