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Circles – Slope of Tangent Line

Geometry and Trigonometry, Hard

This guide teaches how to find the slope of a tangent line to a circle using Desmos. It provides a step-by-step process to calculate the exact value of the slope, including converting decimal representations to fractions, and for finding the slope of a perpendicular (tangent) line.

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