SOLUTION: I have no idea how to do anything with conics, our teacher is not the best teacher and my question is, how to write an equation for the conic section- Ellipse with vertices at (-2,

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: I have no idea how to do anything with conics, our teacher is not the best teacher and my question is, how to write an equation for the conic section- Ellipse with vertices at (-2,2) and (4,2) and co-vertices at (1,1) and (1,3) This question is from textbook

Answer by Nate(3500) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
We can tell that the center is at (1,2) in (h,k) form.
The distance from the center to the farthest verticies is .
The distance from the center to the closest certicies is .

Equation for horizontal Ellipse:

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