OCR MEI Paper 3 2019 June — Question 6

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModulePaper 3 (Paper 3)
Year2019
SessionJune
TopicCircles

6 A circle has centre \(C ( 10,4 )\). The \(x\)-axis is a tangent to the circle, as shown in Fig. 6. \begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics[alt={},max width=\textwidth]{99485c27-9ff8-4bdb-a7e6-49dfcaedc579-5_605_828_979_255} \captionsetup{labelformat=empty} \caption{Fig. 6}
\end{figure}
  1. Find the equation of the circle.
  2. Show that the line \(y = x\) is not a tangent to the circle.
  3. Write down the position vector of the midpoint of OC.