Tangent-Secant segment relationships

Author:: Marsha Hutzell

Topic:: Circle, Geometry

This applet is designed to help students gather data to discover the relationship between between the length of the line segments when a tangent and a secant intersect a circle. Points T, Q, P and R can all be manipulated to vary the size of the arcs and lengths of the segments.

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