Consider the following statements and identify which are correct:
i) A secant to a circle can act as a chord.
ii) A chord cannot be a secant to the circle.

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i only

both are correct

both are wrong

ii only

answer is C.

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Detailed Solution

Given a secant and a chord.
A chord of a circle is a straight-line segment whose endpoints both lie on the circle where the secant is a line stretching to infinity in both directions.
A chord is a line segment that only covers the part inside the circle.
Therefore, a secant to a circle can act as a chord and chord cannot be a secant to the circle.
Thus, both the given statements are correct.
Therefore, option (3) is correct.

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