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What is the measure of the angle formed between a tangent and the diameter of a circle?
It is 90 degrees between the circle's diameter and its tangent
What is the secant of 90 degrees?
The secant function is not defined for odd multipls of 90o.
When is secant not defined?
The secant of an angle is the reciprocal of the cosine of the angle. So the secant is not defined whenever the cosine is zero That is, whenever the angle is a multiple of 180 degrees (or pi radians).
When does a secant of a circle pass through the center of the circle?
The secant of a circle passes through the center of a circle sometimes
Which of the segment below is a secant?
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