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Perpendicular & chord
Perpendicular from the centre,A, cutting a chord of the circle. As CE is always the same as DE,you can see that 'the perpendicular from the centre to a chord bisects the chord'. If you need them, the theorems are summarised here Tim Devereux, Created with GeoGebra |