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by fskilnik@GMATH » Wed Sep 05, 2018 2:28 pm

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In the figure above, two lines are tangent to a circle at points A and B. What is x?
(1) The area of the circle is 81Ï€.
(2) The length of arc ADB is 7Ï€.
Excellent opportunity to explore our two powerful tools when dealing with geometric-related Data Sufficiency problems:

The GEOMETRIC BIFURCATION and
THE ALGEBRAIC-GEOMETRIC BIFURCATION

Please study the image attached!

This solution follows the notations and rationale taught in the GMATH method.

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