Respuesta :

AO is the radius of the circle, so both AO and CO have the same measurement in length. This means that to find the length of BO, you can just add BC + CO and plug in the radius of 17 for CO and the given measure of 128 for BC.

128 + 17 =  145

Now that you have the measure of two of the legs of the triangle, and the triangle is a right triangle, you can use the Pythagorean Theorem. Plug in what you know to find the missing length. 

****Note that BO is the hypotenuse, so c = 145. ***************************

a^2 + b^2 = c^2

17^2 + b^2 = 145^2

289 + b^2 = 21,025     (Subtract 289 from both sides.)

b^2 = 20,736                (Now take the square root.)

b = 144

Your answer should be: 

AB = 144