in the xy plane, point (x,y) lies on the circle with equation x^2+y^2=1 and on the line with the equation y=2x what is the value of xy?
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Let’s get this by substitution. We know , so let’s plug that into the circle equation and solve for
.
This makes sense. is a line that goes through the origin, and
is a circle centered on the origin. So we know we’ll either have a negative
and a negative
, or we’ll have a positive
and a positive
.

So let’s just plug the positive -value back into
.
Now all that’s left is multiplication. The question asks for the value of .