Maddie F.

asked • 07/21/23

Need help on a geo project :)! Any help is appreciated!

  1. A pipe needs to run from a water main, tangent to a circular fish pond. On a coordinate plane, construct the circular fish pond at a given location and specify your center point and radius. Write your circular fish pond equation. On your coordinate plane, identify the point to represent the location of the water main connection. Construct the pipe so that it is tangent to the fish pond from the water main. Include all steps to creating a tangent line, as discussed in this lesson. Submit your final graph. You may do this by hand, using a compass and straightedge, or using a graphing software program.
  2. Discuss the steps that you used to create your tangent line in #1. What was the most important step? Your discussion should be a minimum of three sentences.
  3. Give an example of tangents in the real world that have not been presented in this lesson. Explain how you know the tangent and the radius in your example are perpendicular.
  4. The client has decided to have a similar circular fish pond constructed in a different location in the yard. On your same coordinate grid, construct a new circular fish pond with a different radius and center from your original circular fish pond. Specify the new center and radius.
  5. Explain how your original fish pond is similar to your new fish pond. Include the translation rule or description of the translation, and show your work for determining the scale factor. Submit your final graph and work.


Mark M.

Explicit instructions. What prevents you from following them? Do you have a specifc question?
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Maddie F.

You are a lifesaver, thank you for explaining it in depth :)!
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07/21/23

Maddie F.

Just one question! When I make my second circle, would I use (4, 3) as the center point?
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Doug C.

No, the directions state to have the 2nd circle with a different center and different radius. You could do something like this: Center (-5,8), radius 2. Then the equation would be (x+5)^2 + (y-8)^2 = 4. Have you used Desmos before? desmos.com/calculator/5uetx8tcfg
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Maddie F.

Ohhh!! I have used desmos before!
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07/23/23

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