Solution: Let the radius of the circular lake be $ r $ km. The chord length is 10 km, so half the chord length is $ 5 $ km. The perpendicular distance from the center to the chord is 3 km. By the Pythagorean Theorem applied to the right triangle formed by the radius, half the chord, and the perpendicular from the center to the chord, we have:

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