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The answer depends on what information you have about the circles and their relative positions. If you have the radii of the two circles, r and s, and the distance between their centres, d then the two circles can be written as:(x + d/2)2 + y2 = r2 and (x - d/2)2 + y2 = s2.
=> 2xd = r2 - s2
=> x = (r2 - s2)/2d where all three values on the right hand side are known. So, x can be calculated and, substituting this value of x in the equation for either circle gives a quadratic equation in y. Solving the quadratic will give y1 and y2. Then the coordinates of the chord's end-points are (x, y1) and (x, y2) and the length of the chord is abs(y2 - y1).
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How do you find the radius of a circle if you know the length of a chord is 4 cm length?
Unless the chord is the diameter, there is no way to measure the radius of the circle. This is because the radius is in no way dependent on chord length since circles have infinite amount of chord lengths.
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