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Re: Three circles with radii of 2 cm, 3 cm and 5 cm, respectively are on [#permalink]
wewake06298 wrote:
smaller circle radii is 2 cm so 5-3 = 3 cm
so won't it be answer choice C ?

same question .
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Re: Three circles with radii of 2 cm, 3 cm and 5 cm, respectively are on [#permalink]
Center of largest circle is 5 cm . Center of smallest circle is 2 cm. But the distance between the smallest and largest will be 1 cm . As it is asking the distance from the centers. This makes B greater than A
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Three circles with radii of 2 cm, 3 cm and 5 cm, respectively are on [#permalink]
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Center of the large circle is O, and it's tangent to the small circle with radius 3. A distance between the small circle center and large circle center is 2

IMO, there many different ways to sketch this. You could have something like this
void wrote:
wewake06298 wrote:
smaller circle radii is 2 cm so 5-3 = 3 cm
so won't it be answer choice C ?

same question .

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