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If A is the center of the circle shown above and AB = BC = CD, What is the value of x? A. 15 B. 30 C. 45 D. 60 E. 75
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A is the center of the circle => AB= AD = AC = BC = CD => ABC is a regular triangle => x = 30° The answer is B TheRob wrote: If A is the center of the circle shown above (see attachment) and AB = BC = CD, What is the value of x?
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Triangle abc is equilateral, therefore all angles are 60. abc = acb = bac = 60.
Similarly, Triangle adc is equilateral, therefore all angles are 60. adc = acd = dac = 60.
Now, angle bad = bac + dac = 120, since each triangle is a reverse image of the other.
Now triangle bad is isosceles, since ab = ad.
Therefore abd = adb = 30, since bad =120.
Hence, B
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you can solve the question easily by knowing two important properties of square and rhombus. 1. diagonals bisect each other. 2. each diagonal forms a 90 degree angle with the other diagonal
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TheRob wrote: If A is the center of the circle shown above (see attachment) and AB = BC = CD, What is the value of x? A. 15 B. 30 C. 45 D. 60 E. 75 Attachment: The attachment Circle - original.PNG is no longer available (I tried to draw it the best I could sorry for the inconvenience) Look at the diagram below: Attachment: 
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Given that AB = BC = CD, also since AB is the radius then AB = AC = AD = radius, so we have that: AB = BC = CD = AC = AD, so basically we have two equilateral triangles ABC and ACD with common base of AC (ABC and ACD are mirror images of each other). Line segment BD cuts the angle ABC in half and since all angles in equilateral triangle equal to 60 degrees then x=60/2=30 degrees. Answer: B.
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bunuel ,
how can we say that line segment BD cuts the angle ABC in half which property is this , can u expalin me?
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pbull78 wrote: bunuel ,
how can we say that line segment BD cuts the angle ABC in half which property is this , can u expalin me?
thanks ABC and ACD are two equilateral triangles, which are mirror images of each other if you join vertices B and D, the segment BD must cut AC, the common base, in half. Which makes BD perpendicular bisector of AC --> so BO is a hight, median, and bisector of angle ABC (O being intersection point of BD and AC). Hope it's clear.
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This is a proper rhombus... and this is one of the property of rhombus... that they bisect the diagonals in half.. and the diagonals bisect the angles in half...
also Angle (DAC is 120 degree )
and Triangle DAC is an isosceles triangle.. with base BD... hence angle ABD is 30
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thanks bunuel , i also appreciate the explanation given by jivana.
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In triangle ABC, AB = BC = AC meaning all angles = 60 deg each. Similarly, in Triangle CDA, AD = CD = AC meaning all angles = 60 deg each. thus, in quadrilateral ABCD, Angle A = 120 = C and Angle B = 60 deg = Angle D. Thus in Triangle, ABC A + Angle ABD + Angle ADC = 180 120 + 2 * Angle ABD = 180 x = 30 deg.
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we are given that AB=BC=CD AB is the radius of the circle, so AB=AD This makes ABCD a square. Therefore, BD and AC are the diagonals of the square. Angle A, B, C, D = 90 and hence x=45 Why is this not considered that ABCD is a square?
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Bunuel wrote: aakrity wrote: we are given that AB=BC=CD
AB is the radius of the circle, so AB=AD
This makes ABCD a square. Therefore, BD and AC are the diagonals of the square. Angle A, B, C, D = 90 and hence x=45
Why is this not considered that ABCD is a square? ABCD is not a square it's a rhombus (the diagonals are not equal). O right how silly of me I assumed if a quadrilateral has four equal sides, it is a square. Now the solution makes sense to me. Thank you.
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Bunuel wrote: aakrity wrote: we are given that AB=BC=CD
AB is the radius of the circle, so AB=AD
This makes ABCD a square. Therefore, BD and AC are the diagonals of the square. Angle A, B, C, D = 90 and hence x=45
Why is this not considered that ABCD is a square? ABCD is not a square it's a rhombus (the diagonals are not equal). Bunnel, So Diagonals are 'angle bisectors' both in a Rhombus (not congruent here) and a Square. But it's not the case in a rectangle where they are congruent and perpendicular bosectors alone. Is my understanding accurate? I've read that every point on an angle bisector is equidistant from both the adjacent sides. Is there any other way to identify whether a diagonal is also an angle bisector? Thank you
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Kconfused wrote: Bunuel wrote: aakrity wrote: we are given that AB=BC=CD
AB is the radius of the circle, so AB=AD
This makes ABCD a square. Therefore, BD and AC are the diagonals of the square. Angle A, B, C, D = 90 and hence x=45
Why is this not considered that ABCD is a square? ABCD is not a square it's a rhombus (the diagonals are not equal). Bunnel, So Diagonals are 'angle bisectors' both in a Rhombus (not congruent here) and a Square. But it's not the case in a rectangle where they are congruent and perpendicular bosectors alone. Is my understanding accurate? I've read that every point on an angle bisector is equidistant from both the adjacent sides. Is there any other way to identify whether a diagonal is also an angle bisector? Thank you All is true, except that the diagonals in rectangle are no perpendicular to each other. They bisect each other but not at a right angle.
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Thought BC and CD were the arcs, not straight lines.
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What we know:
1) The figure is a rhombus (Diagonals are angular bisectors)
2) All lines extended from A are radii of the circle.
Therefore, AB = BC = AC. This in turn makes ABC an equilateral triangle. Now you know angleABC is 60*.
As the figure is a rhombus and its diagonals bisect the angleABC, x = 30
Answer : B
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