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  1. Draw a circle with centre O and radius 4 cm. Take a point P outside th...

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  2. Draw a circle of radius 1 cm. From a point P 2.2 cm apart from the cen...

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  3. Construct a tangent to a circle of radius 1.8 cm from a point on the c...

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

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  5. Draw a pair of tangent to a circle of radius 2.3 cm which are inclined...

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  6. What is the relation between tangent and secant?

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  7. From a point P,the length of the tangent to a circle is 15 cm and dist...

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  8. If CP and CQ are tangent from an external point C to a circle centered...

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  9. If two tangents are drawn from an external point to a circle, what is ...

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  10. How many tangents can you draw on a circle.

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  11. If two tangents are drawn to a circle from an external points, they su...

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  12. The length of tangent from an external point is always then the lengt...

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  13. Prove that opposite sides of a quadrilateral circumscribing a circle s...

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  14. Prove that parallelogram circumscribing a circle is a rhombus.

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  15. If OA and OB are radii and PA and PB are tangents to a circle, a speci...

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  16. If the angle between two tangents drawn from a point outside of a circ...

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  17. To draw a pair of tangents to a circle which are inclined to each othe...

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  18. The length of the tangent from a point at P at a circle of radius 3 cm...

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  19. APB is a tangent to a circle with centre O at a point P if /QPB = 50° ...

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  20. From the external pair T, TP and TQ are two tangents to a circle cente...

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