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    The document discusses the standard form of a circle equation and how to find the center and radius of a circle given its equation. It provides examples of writing the equation of a circle given properties like the center and radius or a point it passes through. It also shows how to complete the square to write a circle equation in standard form if it is multiplied out.

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    The document discusses the standard form of a circle equation and how to find the center and radius of a circle given its equation. It provides examples of writing the equation of a circle given properties like the center and radius or a point it passes through. It also shows how to complete the square to write a circle equation in standard form if it is multiplied out.

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    The document discusses the standard form of a circle equation and how to find the center and radius of a circle given its equation. It provides examples of writing the equation of a circle given properties like the center and radius or a point it passes through. It also shows how to complete the square to write a circle equation in standard form if it is multiplied out.

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    2002 by Shawna Haider

    The standard form of the equation of a circle with


    its center at the origin is
    2
    2
    2

    x y r

    r is the radius of the circle so if we take the square root of the


    right hand side, we'll know how big the radius is.

    Notice that both the x and y terms are squared. When we


    looked at parabolas, only the x term was squared.

    Let's look at the equation

    x y 9
    2

    This is r2 so r = 3
    The center of the circle is at the origin and the radius is 3.
    Let's graph this circle.
    Count out 3 in all
    directions since
    that is the radius

    Center at (0, 0)

    -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

    If the center of the circle is NOT at the origin then the


    equation for the standard form of a circle looks like this:

    x h

    y k r
    2

    The center of the circle is at (h, k).

    x 3

    This is r2 so r = 4

    y 1 16
    2

    Find the center and radius and graph this circle.


    The center of the circle is at (h, k) which is (3,1).
    The radius is 4
    - - - - - - - 12345678
    765432 1
    0

    If you take the equation of a circle in standard form for


    example:
    2
    2
    This is r2 so r = 2
    x2 y4 4

    (x - (-2))
    Remember center is at (h, k) with (x - h) and (y - k)
    since the x is plus something and not minus, (x + 2)
    can be written as (x - (-2))
    You can find the center and radius easily.
    The center is at (-2, 4) and the radius is 2.
    But what if it was not in standard form but multiplied out (FOILED)

    x 4 x 4 y 8 y 16 4
    2

    Moving everything to one side in descending order and


    combining like terms we'd have:

    x y 4 x 8 y 16 0
    2

    x y 4 x 8 y 16 0
    2

    If we'd have started with it like this, we'd have to complete the
    square on both the x's and y's to get in standard form.
    Group x terms and a place Group y terms and a place
    to complete the square
    to complete the square

    Move constant
    to the other side

    2
    4
    16 16 ___
    4 ___
    16
    x 4 x ____ y 8 y ____
    2

    Complete the square


    Write factored and wahlah! back in standard form.

    x 2

    y 4 4
    2

    Now let's work some examples:


    Find an equation of the circle with center at (0, 0) and radius 7.
    Let's sub in center and radius values in the standard form

    x 0h

    y k0 7r
    2

    x y 49
    2

    Find an equation of the circle with center at (0, 0) that passes


    through the point (-1, -4).
    Since the center is at (0, 0) we'll have

    x y r
    2

    The point (-1, -4) is on the circle so should work when


    we plug it in the equation:

    4 r 1 16 17
    2

    Subbing this in for r2 we have:

    x y 17
    2

    Find an equation of the circle with center at (-2, 5) and radius 6


    Subbing in the values in standard form we have:

    x -2h
    x 2

    y k5 6r
    2

    y 5 36
    2

    Find an equation of the circle with center at (8, 2) and passes


    through the point (8, 0).
    Subbing in the center values in standard form we have:

    x 8h

    y k2 r
    2

    Since it passes through the point (8, 0) we can plug this


    point in for x and y to find r2.

    8 8

    0 2 r

    x 8

    y 2 4
    2

    Identify the center and radius and sketch the graph:

    9 x 9 y 64
    2

    To get in standard form we don't want coefficients on the


    squared terms so let's divide everything by 9.

    64
    x y
    9
    2

    Remember to square
    root this to get the
    radius.

    So the center is at (0, 0) and the radius is 8/3.


    - - - - - - - 12345678
    765432 1
    0

    Identify the center and radius and sketch the graph:

    x 4

    y 3 25
    2

    Remember the center values end up being the opposite sign of what
    is with the x and y and the right hand side is the radius squared.
    So the center is at (-4, 3) and the radius is 5.

    - - - - - - - 01 23 4 56 7 8
    7 654 32 1

    Find the center and radius of the circle:

    x y 6x 4 y 3 0
    2

    We have to complete the square on both the x's and y's to get in
    standard form.
    Group x terms and a place Group y terms and a place
    to complete the square
    to complete the square

    Move constant
    to the other side

    2
    9
    4 3 ___
    9 ___
    4
    x 6 x ____ y 4 y ____
    2

    Write factored for standard form.

    x 3

    y 2 16
    2

    So the center is at (-3, 2) and the radius is 4.

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