SOLUTION: Find the x-intercepts fpr the ellipse. x^2/25 + y^2/16 = 1

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Question 416231: Find the x-intercepts fpr the ellipse. x^2/25 + y^2/16 = 1
Answer by htmentor(1343)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The standard form for an ellipse is
The major axis goes from (-a,a).
Since 25=5^2, the x intercepts are x=-5, x=5.
Another way to see this is to set y=0 in the equation for the ellipse.
Then we have -> . The two solutions are -5,5.

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