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Point is the center of a circle. The measure of arc on this circle is . What is the measure, in degrees, of its associated angle ?
Point O is the center of a circle. The measure of arc R S on this
Hard-difficulty · SAT Math · Circles — Arc length and sector area. Read the question above, select your answer, and check the full explanation below to understand exactly why the correct choice works.
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The correct answer is . It's given that point is the center of a circle and the measure of arc on the circle is . It follows that points and lie on the circle. Therefore, and are radii of the circle. A central angle is an angle formed by two radii of a circle, with its vertex at the center of the circle. Therefore, is a central angle. Because the degree measure of an arc is equal to the measure of its associated central angle, it follows that the measure, in degrees, of is .
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