document.write( "Question 339645: I don't understand how my book comes up witht these answers: If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it!\r
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\n" ); document.write( "Answer is: X squared - 3Ysquared + 16y - 16 = 0\r
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I don't understand how my book comes up witht these answers: If anyone can help, I'd greatly appreciate it!\r
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document.write( "\"r=4%2F%281%2B2Sin%28theta%29%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Draw this picture which defines x,y,r, and q\r\n" );
document.write( "and all their relationships.\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"r=4%2F%281%2B2Sin%28theta%29%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Clear of fractions:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"r%281%2B2Sin%28theta%29%29=4\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace any trig functions:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Refer to the picture above and you can see that you can \r\n" );
document.write( "replace \"Sin%28theta%29\" by \"y%2Fr\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"r%281%2B2%2Aexpr%28y%2Fr%29%29=4\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"r%2B2y=4\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now replace the r by using the Pythagorean theorem \"r=sqrt%28x%5E2%2By%5E2%29\"\r\n" );
document.write( "from the picture above.\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"sqrt%28x%5E2%2By%5E2%29%2B2y=4\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Isolate the radical term:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"sqrt%28x%5E2%2By%5E2%29=4-2y\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Square both sides:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"%28sqrt%28x%5E2%2By%5E2%29%29%5E2=%284-2y%29%5E2\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"x%5E2%2By%5E2=%284-2y%29%5E2\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"x%5E2%2By%5E2=%284-2y%29%284-2y%29%7D%7D%0D%0A%0D%0A%7B%7B%7Bx%5E2%2By%5E2=16-8y-8y%2B4y%5E2\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"x%5E2%2By%5E2=16-16y%2B4y%5E2\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"x%5E2-3y%5E2+%2B+16y+-16+=+0\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Also, this one...they ask to change it to a polar equation.\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"x%5E2+-+y%5E2+=+12\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Refer to the picture above, write the expressions for the sine and\r\n" );
document.write( "the cosine:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"x%2Fr=cos%28theta%29\",  \"y%2Fr=sin%28theta%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Solve for x and y:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"x=r%2Acos%28theta%29\",  \"y=r%2Asin%28theta%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Substitute these:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"%28r%2Acos%28theta%29%29%5E2+-+%28r%2Asin%28theta%29%29%5E2+=+12\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"r%5E2%2ACos%5E2theta+-+r%5E2%2ASin%5E2theta+=+12\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Factor out \"r%5E2\" on the left\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"r%5E2%28Cos%5E2theta-Sin%5E2theta%29=12\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now we can recognize that what's in the parentheses is the right side \r\n" );
document.write( "of the identity \"Cos%282theta%29=Cos%5E2theta-Sin%5E2theta\" which you\r\n" );
document.write( "should have memorized. So substituting:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"r%5E2%28Cos%282theta%29%29=+12%0D%0A%0D%0ASolve+for+%7B%7B%7Br%5E2\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"r%5E2=12%2F%28Cos%282theta%29%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the \"Cos%282theta%29\" by \"1%2FSec%282theta%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"r%5E2=12%2F%281%2FSec%282theta%29%29%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Invert and multiply:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\"r%5E2=12%2ASec%282theta%29%29%29\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin
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