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Drawing Tangents to a Circle from a Point on the Circle

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Question 2 (iii)
Fill in the blanks:
(iii) A circle can have ___ parallel tangents at the most.

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(iii) A circle can have two parallel tangents at the most.

As shown in the figure, m is a tangent to the circle with centre O and l is the only tangent that is parallel to m. Therefore, a circle can have two parallel tangents at the most.

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