Elementary Geometry for College Students (5th Edition)

Published by Brooks Cole
ISBN 10: 1439047901
ISBN 13: 978-1-43904-790-3

Chapter 6 - Review Exercises - Page 320: 36b

Answer

The tangents are in pencil and are marked as $t_1$ and $t_2$.

Work Step by Step

First, draw the circle and the secant described in the problem statement. Next, recalling that a tangent line has the same slope at the circle at the point it intersects the circle, draw the tangent lines through point C for the given circle.
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