+359 Circles with centers of $(2,2)$ and $(17,17)$ are both tangent to the $x$-axis. What is the distance between the closest points of the two circles?
+399 The equation of the first circle with center (2,2) is:
\({(x-2)}^{2}+{(y-2)}^{2}=4\)
The equation of the second circle with center (17, 17) is:
\({(x-17)}^{2}+{(y-17)}^{2}=289\)
Here is a graph:
The closest distance between the two is the length of the line segment conncting the 2 centers of the cricles minus the two radii.
Therefore the closest distance is \(\sqrt{(17-2)^2+(17-2)^2}-17-2=15\sqrt{2}-17-2\).
+399 The equation of the first circle with center (2,2) is:
\({(x-2)}^{2}+{(y-2)}^{2}=4\)
The equation of the second circle with center (17, 17) is:
\({(x-17)}^{2}+{(y-17)}^{2}=289\)
Here is a graph:
The closest distance between the two is the length of the line segment conncting the 2 centers of the cricles minus the two radii.
Therefore the closest distance is \(\sqrt{(17-2)^2+(17-2)^2}-17-2=15\sqrt{2}-17-2\).
