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Q: How many tangents can be drawn to a point on a circle?
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How many tangents can be drawn from a single point?

Two tangents can be drawn from a point outside a circle to the circle. The answer for other curves depends on the curve.


How many tangents can be drawn to a circle containing a point outside the circle?

Any tangent must contain a point outside the circle. So the answer to the question, as stated, is infinitely many. However, if the question was how many tangents to a circle can be drawn from a point outside the circle, the answer is two.


How many tangents can be drawn to a circle containing a point inside a circle?

No tangent No tangent


How many tangents can be drawn from a point on the circumference of a circle?

Only one which is a tangent to that circle.


How many parallel tangents can be drawn to a circle?

An infinite amount


How many tangents can be drawn to a circle containing a point inside the circle?

None can. A tangent is a line that touches a circle at only one point. If it wentthrough a point inside the circle, then it would have to touch the circle at twopoints ... one on the way in and another one on the way out.


How many tangents can be drawn on three circles if they dont lie within each other?

if you mean common tangents there can be only 2 tangents


How many parallel tangents can a circle have?

infinite


How many tangents can be drawen to a circle contaning a point inside the circle?

None. A tangent is a line that has exactly onepoint in common with the circle.If it contained a point inside the circle, then it would have to pass through twopoints on the circle.


How many circle can be drawn at one point?

It can be only 1 * * * * * Infinitely many concentric circles can be drawn.


How many tangents can draw in a circle?

An infinite number. / There is no limit.


How many lines can be drawn through a given point on a circle that is tangent to the circle?

Infinite lines because a circle has infinite lines of symmetry.