Stage 18 · Circles

18.4.4 How Many Points Fix a Circle

18.4 Point, Line, Circle — Who Touches Whom

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18.4.4 How Many Points Fix a Circle

Core idea

Three points not all on one line can be circled by exactly one circle and no other — this is a triangle's circumscribed circle.

Module goal. Use one unifying key — comparing a distance against the radius — to judge how a point, a line, and two circles sit relative to one another.
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