Chapter -10

Cireles

I Mark Questions

I n the adjoining figure, CP and CQ are tangents to a circle with centre O. ARB is another ungent
touching the circle at R. it CP *
TlCm and C 7em, find the
length ot BR.
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A
O

2 I n he adjoining figure, if LATO = 40°.find cAdB.

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A 1o CRad

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3. Findthe distance between two ltangents to a circle of radiusr.

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Name the point where a tangent of a circle is perpendicular to its radius?

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 O. 60",then find
nthethelength
fgure. PQ is a tangent of
length 6em to the circle with
centre
If 20QP
1of 00
c

60

with centre O such that 2APB

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S0, write the
.in gure, PA and PB are tangents to
the circle
measure of 20AB
fA Pnlo d
PAA rAA crR
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7. PCisa tangent to the circle at C. AOB is the diameter whTch when extended meets the tangenLa
as
LPCA =

110,
P. Find
4CBA, LAOC and zBCO,f

0
L OCA L fCo
20CA 9o 1

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 .AD and AC aretangents to the circle with centre O D and
If 2DAC 70°.find LBCA, LBDC and
LBCO

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5
D respectively.
.AC and
AD
are tangents at Cand 2CBD and
aACD
LBCD 44". find 2CAD, LADC,

AC AD q )
AC 0c A, 0DI AD d
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common
and BT meet the
with centres X and Y touch externally
at P. If tangents AT
10. Two circles BI.
that Al
angent al , then prove
X,
T
A T PT TP

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 A16cm,ndP8 are two tangents drawn from an external point P to a circle with centre O. IfAP
find the perimeter of APCD.

Pct A ?O
PA P

2.PA and B are two tangents to the circle with centre O at A and B respectively. IfOP scm
AP 4cm and BT 6cm, find O1.
OA n udn)
PA hu° e
4' A
A)

0T A + 7
DA IPA3
13. The length of a tangent from a point A at a distaDce Scm from the centre of the circle is 4cm.
ind the diameter of the circle.

A
 ABC s an
isoceles A in which AB
AC, circumeribed a
bisected at the point of contact.
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XP and XQ are tangents from

X to the circie wiln
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E CCe lrove that XA AR XB BR.
f. x{ A A

er XAAR

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Af
AR

8em, 1Ocm and 12em

as shown irthe adjoining
inscribed in a AABC having sides
16 A circle is
Find AD, BE and CF.
figure.

10cm

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 .A circle is
touching the side BC ofa AABC at P and is touching AB and AC when produced a

end R repectively. Prove that A Perimeter of AABC)

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A 2 A0 r
f
. In the djolning figure, a ciele is Inacribed in a quadrilaieral AbcD in wthch 2B 9 0 . If
AD 23cm, AB 29cm and DS -
Scm, find the radius (r)
of the circie.

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4 Marks Questions
19. Two circles with centers O and O' of radii Jcm and 4cm respeciveiy interect at TwO poins

und Q such that OP and O'P are tangents to the two circles. Find the lengh of the common chord
of 0

oR3 m)nd ) Au 'of

'f 0'a (m)naan) oP

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11) (

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 segment
PAB are dawn
0 In the grven figure, from an externalpoint P, a tangent PT
and a
line
the chord AB. ProvEe L
a circle with
centre0. ON is perpendicular on
) PAx PB = PN AN

OP ori T Ar
PN-AN
ti) PA x PB PT"

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drawn
chord RS is
30.A
such that ZRPQ=
drawn to a
circle
and PR are
tangents PQ
figure
21. n the tangent
PQ. Find
zN.
ORD 1s
parallel to

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