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Please help!!!

I tried to draw this out, pretend it looks like a circle.
(Point x is the center of the circle)
How do you find the length of chord DF with the knowledge that AC=DF and that BC=12

Please help!!! I tried to draw this out, pretend it looks like a circle. (Point x-example-1

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To find the length of chord DF, we can use the properties of a circle. Since point X is the center of the circle, we know that the line segment XB is also a radius of the circle. Therefore, XB = AC = DF.

We also know that BC = 12. Since XB is a radius, we can use the Pythagorean theorem to find the length of AB, which is half of DF. We have:

AB^2 + BC^2 = XB^2

AB^2 + 12^2 = XB^2

AB^2 + 144 = XB^2

But we also know that AB = DF/2, so we can substitute that into the equation above:

(DF/2)^2 + 144 = XB^2

DF^2/4 + 144 = XB^2

Finally, we substitute XB = AC = DF to get:

DF^2/4 + 144 = DF^2

144 = 3DF^2/4

DF^2 = 192

DF = sqrt(192) ≈ 13.86

Therefore, the length of chord DF is approximately 13.86.

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