Circle Things
Properties
You need this property to solve it.
Mrs. Gauthier
Draw the Diagram
100

This is the line segment going from the center of the circle to its circumfrence.

What is the radius?

100

The perpendicular from the center of the circle that bisects the chord.

What is Perpendicular to Chord Property 1?

100

You need this to find <OAB.

Follow-up: What is <OAB?

What is the tangent radius property?

<OAB=90deg

100

This is Mrs. Gauthier's first name.

What is Isabelle?

100

Perpendicular to Chord Property.

All three elements of the property must be labeled.

Label the bisection, the center and the 90deg.

200

This is the line that connects the circumference to circumference running through the center of the circle.

What is the diameter?


200

A tangent to a circle is perpendicular to the radius at the point of tangency.

What is the Tangent-Radius Property?

200

This diagram illustrates this property.Follow up: What are x and y (in degrees)?

What is the Perpendicular to Chord Property?


x= 33deg, y=57deg

200

This is how many children Mrs. Gauthier has.

What is 3?

200

The Tangent Radius Property

Lable at least 3 elements on the diagram

Label the point of tangency, the center, the right angle, the tangent, the radius

300

A line that intersects a circle at one point.

What is a tangent?

300

The perpendicular bisector of a chord in a circle passes through the center of the circle.

What is Perpendicular to Chord Property 2?

300

These two theorems are necessary to solve for the length of side a.

Extension: What is angle OPQ?

What is the Radius Property and the Pythagorean Theorem?

a = 5

300

Cats or dogs, AND favorite flavour ice cream.

Cats

Mint chip (the only kind worth eating).

300

This is how two tangents can be used to find the center of a circle.

400

A line segment that joins two points on a circle.

What is a chord?

400

The length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the square root of the sums of the squares of the other two sides.

*Correct spelling required*

What is the Pythagorean Theorem?

400

Answer must include a diagram.

What is 16.6cm?

400

This is a card game that Mrs. Gauthier likes to play.

Cribbage, Kaizer, Canasta

400

A circle has diameter of 32cm. There is a chord 20cm long. Label the length of the bisector.

Follow up: What property does this demonstrate?

Perpendicular to chord property

500

This is the name of the line that runs from the center of a circle to a chord, intersecting the chord at 90 degrees.

What is a perpendicular bisector?

500

Perpendicular to Chord property 3

What is a line that joins the centre of a circle and the midpoint of a chord is perpendicular to the chord.
500

A pedestrian underpass is constructed using a cylindrical pipe of radius 2.6m. The bottom of the pipe will be filled and paved.  The headroom at the center of the path is 3.9 ms. 

How wide is the path?

What properties did you use?

Answer must include a diagram.

4.5m

500

This name, beginning with the letter 'P', is Mrs. Gauthier's middle name.

What is Pauline?

500

You win 500 points!

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