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if the point (2/3,y) is on the unit circle, what is y?
 Apr 11, 2014
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Qualababy18:

if the point (2/3,y) is on the unit circle, what is y?



The equation for the unit circle is x 2 + y 2 = 1, so if x = 2/3, we have (2/3) 2 + y 2 = 1. We can rearrange this to get y 2 = 1-(2/3) 2,, by taking the square root of both sides we can find y (there will be two values)
solve(y^2=1-(2/3)^2)
 Apr 11, 2014

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