What makes a unit circle distinct from just any circle drawn on the coordinate plane? In your answer use terms like; origin, coordinate plane, x - and y - axes to explain.

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Aden Lewis

9 January, 03:51

What makes a unit circle distinct from just any circle drawn on the coordinate plane? In your answer use terms like; origin, coordinate plane, x - and y - axes to explain.

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Antony Harding · Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

The unit circle is a circle with a center at the origin and a radius of 1. The circumference of the circle can be used to represent a number line. This allows trig functions to be thought of as two dimensional functions represented on the coordinate plane with x and y terms, rather than just the ratio of a right triangle.

Soren Garner · Answer 2

What makes a unit circle distinct from just any circle drawn on the coordinate plane is that the unit circle starts with the origin finding the radius, It also consists of forming a triangle on the radius with the x-axes, y-axes and 1 which is always the radius on the unit circle which is very different from a coordinate plane.