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AB is a chord of a circle. AB divides the circumference of the circle into two parts. The part with the longer length is called ____ and the part with shorter length is called ____.


A

major arc, minor arc

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minor arc, minor arc

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minor arc, major arc

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minor arc, major arc

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Solution

The correct option is A

major arc, minor arc



Given, AB is the chord of the circle with center O.
Now you can see that the chord AB divides the circle into 2 parts ACB and ADB. The larger arc (ACB) is called the major arc
and the smaller arc is called the minor arc.


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