The radius of a circle is 34 meters long, and the chord of the circle is 60 meters long. How far is the chord from the center of the circle? (Im very hopeless...please send step by step instructions)

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okay think of it as a triangle with the chord of 60 meters as the base of the triangle extend 2 line from center to endpoint of chord to form a triangle. since the line goes from the center to the endpoint it is the radius and thus is 34. we have just formed a triangle. now draw a perpendicular line from center to base of triangle to for two right triangles, a theorem lets you divide the base in 2 equal lengths so each right triangles has a leg measure of 30. now we have two sides of a right triangle the hypotenuse(34) and one leg of 30. now use pythagorean to find the missing length i.e the distance to the chord from the center which is what you are trying to find.