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It’s your turn on ellipses

solutions to the exercises

Do your best in trying to solve the following problems. In any case some of them are solved in the video and all of them are solved in the pdf file below.

Exercise 1.

Compute the center, the foci, and the length of the two axes of the ellipse of equation [x^2+4y^2-4x+24y+24=0.] Is it horizontally or vertically oriented?

Exercise 2.

Compute the center, the foci, and the length of the two axes of the ellipse of equation [9x^2+4y^2+18x-24y+9=0.] Is it horizontally or vertically oriented?

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