How do you find the equation of a circle whose diameter endpoints of (5,8) and (5,-4)?
1 Answer
Nov 26, 2016
Please see the explanation.
Explanation:
The standard form for the equation of a circle is:
where
The center of the circle is halfway between the two endpoints, from
This means that the center is
This, also, tells us that the radius is 6.
We have have all of the information that we need to substitute into the standard form: