Pg 316(328) - Q25

They want to know which of the following would be sufficient to determine the radius of a circle.  Well, #1 would work because  you have the length of the arc PQR.  PQR is generated by a 90 degree angle, so that would be 1/4 of the circumference.  Simply multiply the value of PQR by 4 and you have the value of the circumference, so you could certainly calculate the radius from that.  If you have the perimeter of the triangle OPR, each of the sides, PO and PR, would be equal to the radius.  And the length PR
would be the hypotenuse of that triangle so it would be equal to the radius times the square root of 2.  So you could certainly find the radius from that.  And, we just determined that PR would simply be the radius times the square root of two.  So the answer here is E, you could find the answer from all three.

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