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The construction of a tangent to a circle given a point outside the circle can be justified using the second corollary to the inscribed angle theorem. An alternative proof of this construction is shown below. Complete the proof

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Answer:Statements:5. Angle CAD is congruent to angle DCA; Angle DAE is congruent to angle AED11. Angle ADC and Angle EDA are supplementary18. Angle CAE is 90 degrees20. AE is perpendicular to AC Reasons:3. Definition of isosceles triangle4. Sum of interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees.9. Subtraction16. Definition of complementary angles21. Converse of Radius-Tangent Theorem Step-by-step explanation: