Suppose that , and are points on a circle such that is the midpoint of arc . Let be an arbitrary point on the arc such that is longer than . Let be the foot of the perpendicular from to .
If the length of is 5 and the length of is 2, find the length of .
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Here is a generalization of A D = B C + C D .