Finding the Center and Radius - Math

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Find the center and radius of the circle defined by the equation:

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The equation of a circle is: where is the radius and is the center.

In this problem, the equation is already in the format required to determine center and radius. To find the -coordinate of the center, we must find the value of that makes equal to 0, which is 3. We do the same to find the y-coordinate of the center and find that . To find the radius we take the square root of the constant on the right side of the equation which is 6.

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