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Question from Deepa, a teacher: Why in a circle,a chord is called as the longest diameter? |
Deepa,
A chord is a line segment joining two points on a circle. If the two points happen to be at the ends of a diagonal then the diagonal is the chord.
A diagonal is a chord.
Penny
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