Exercise 10.1

Question 1:  How many tangents can a circle have? 

Quetion 2:  Fill in the blanks :
(i) A tangent to a circle intersects it in ……………… point (s).
(ii) A line intersecting a circle in two points is called a ……………….
(iii) A circle can have……………… parallel tangents at the most.
(iv) The common point of a tangent to a circle and the circle is called …………

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Question 3: A tangent PQ at a point P of a circle of radius 5 cm meets a line through the centre O at a point Q so that OQ = 12 cm. Length PQ is :
(A) 12 cm (B) 13 cm (C) 8.5 cm (D) 119 cm.

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Question 4: Draw a circle and two lines parallel to a given line such that one is a tangent and the other, a secant to the circle.

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