
The line segment joining two points on a circle is called .

Important Questions on Circles

‘O’ is the centre of the circle. The area of the shaded region in the given figure is then the diameter is:





In the given figure, three circles with centres respectively touch each other externally. If and , then the radius of the circle with centre is

A semi - circle of diameter unit sits at the top of a semi-circle of diameter units. The shaded region inside the smaller semi-circle but outside the larger semi-circle is called a lune . The area of the lune is -

From the figure of match the following. The correct option is _____
Match
length
length

Chords and are intersecting at . centimetres, centimetres and centimetres. What is the length of ?






Let be a sector of a circle with centre and radius and be a point on such that is perpendicular. Let be the mid-point of and be a point on the arc such that is parallel to . Then, the ratio of length of the arc to the length of the arc is



In the figure, are the sides of a right triangle where is the hypotenuse. Prove that the radius of the circle which touches the sides of the triangle is given by .



