Problem about radius and chord of a circle.

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The radius of a circle is 14. How far is a chord of length 12 away from the center of the circle?

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A hint:

The chord is the vertical line here. (Couldn't you look that up online trivially??)

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I hope you are familiar with the Pythagorean theorem. enter image description here