SOLUTION: Find the eccentricity of the hyperbola given by x^2/5^2-y^2/2^2=1

Question 342914: Find the eccentricity of the hyperbola given by x^2/5^2-y^2/2^2=1
Answer by jsmallt9(3758) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

For this equation, and . That makes a = 5 and b = 2. Also, in a hyperbola, so . That makes .

Eccentricity is c/a do for this hyperbola the eccentricity is
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