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Sheet # 25 Critical Thinking

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A bug crawls around a circle with a radius of 3 cm and a center at point A. Another bug crawls around a circle with a radius of 2 cm and center at point B. If the distance between A and B is 8 cm, what is the shortest distance, in centimeters, that the bugs could be from one another?









































Answers for sheet # 25

(8- 3 - 2) =3 cm