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

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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?
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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
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Stan H.