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The center of this circle is O. And I
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apologize if I'm a little out of breath,
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I actually just did some pull-ups.
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Anyway, the center of this circle
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is O. Find the exact length of OA, CD, and OF.
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So let's look at each of these.
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So CD, it's part of a right triangle.
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It's one of the two shorter sides of a right triangle.
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But we don't know the hypotenuse,
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so we're not going to be able to figure out CD
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out right, just yet.
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Same thing with OF.
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OF is one of the two shorter sides of a right triangle.
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But we don't know its hypotenuse either.
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Now let's look at OA.
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OA is the hypotenuse of a right triangle,
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and they've given us the two other sides.
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So we can use the Pythagorean theorem
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to figure out the hypotenuse.
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So we know that 7 squared, let's call this x.
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We know that 7 squared plus 24 squared
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is going to be equal to the length of OA squared.
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It's going to be equal to x squared.
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7 squared is 49, and 24 squared, well
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let's do a multiplication right over here
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to figure out 24 times 24.
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4 times 4 is 16.
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4 times 2 is 8 plus-- so that's 96.
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And then two times 24 is 48.
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Add them together, we get 6.
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9 plus 8 is 17, 576.
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So 49 plus 576 is equal to x squared.
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And so let's think about what this is going to be.
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And this is going to be the same thing as 50 plus 575.
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I just took one away from this and added one here.
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So 50 plus 575 is 625.
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So 625 is equal to x squared.
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And you might recognize that 25 times 25 is 625.
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So x is equal to 25.
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And if you don't believe me you could multiply that out
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on your own.
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So x is equal to 25.
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Or another way of thinking about it, the exact length of OA
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is equal to 25.
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Now, how can we somehow use that information
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to figure out this other stuff?
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Well all of these other right triangles,
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all of their hypotenuses are a radius of the circle,
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and so is OA.
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OA is a radius of the circle.
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OG is a radius of the circle.
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OC is a radius of the circle.
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Well, we just figured out the radius of the circle is 25.
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So OG is going to be 25, and OC is going to be 25 as well.
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So now we just have to apply the Pythagorean theorem a few more
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times.
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So right over here, if I call OF,
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let's just call that, I don't know for the sake of argument,
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let's call that length equal to a.
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So here, for this triangle, we see
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that a squared plus the square root of 141
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squared-- I'll just write that as 141-- so plus 141 is going
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to be equal to 25 squared, which we already know to be 625.
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If we subtract 141 from both sides
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let's see where do we get.
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So let's do 625 minus 141 we get 5 minus 1 is 4.
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And then 12 here, and we can put a 5 there.
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12 minus 4 is 8.
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5 minus 1 is 4.
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So we get 484.
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So we get a squared is equal to 484.
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So what squared is equal to 484?
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Actually, I'll just try to do a prime factorization here
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to figure this out.
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So 484 is 2 times 242, which is 2 times 121, which
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is the same thing as 11 times 11.
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So another way of thinking about it is this
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is 2 squared-- so 484, I'll write it over here.
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484 is equal to 2 squared times 11 squared.
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Or it's the same thing as 2 times 11
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squared, which is 22 squared.
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So in this case a is equal to-- let me just clean all that up
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so I have some space to work with-- a is equal to 22.
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Let me write that down.
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a is equal to 22, so that's equal to 22 right here.
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And that's the length of segment OF.
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So this is 22.
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And then finally CD, once again we just
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apply the Pythagorean theorem.
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Let's just call this, I don't know, I've already used a.
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I've already used x.
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I don't know, I'll call this b.
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So we see that b squared plus 15 squared, which
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is the same thing as 225-- 15 squared is 225--
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is going to be equal to 25 squared,
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is going to be equal to 625.
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Subtract 225 from both sides you get b squared is equal to 400,
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and the square root of 400 is pretty easy to calculate.
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B is equal to 20.
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So segment OA is 25, CD is 20, and OF is 22.