SOLUTION: A commercial artist plans to include an ellipse in a design and wants the length of the horizontal axis to equal 10 and the length of the vertical axis to equal 6. What is the equa

Question 77261: A commercial artist plans to include an ellipse in a design and wants the length of the horizontal axis to equal 10 and the length of the vertical axis to equal 6. What is the equation that could represent the ellipse?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A commercial artist plans to include an ellipse in a design and wants the length of the horizontal axis to equal 10 and the length of the vertical axis to equal 6. What is the equation that could represent the ellipse?
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x^2/100 + y^2/36 = 1
Cheers,
Stan H.
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