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I need help writting the equation of an ellipse. I am given the center (-3,1) the verticies (-1,1) and (-5,1) and the coverts at (-3,0)/(-3,2)
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\n" ); document.write( "Ellipse has a horizontal major axis
\n" ); document.write( "Its standard form of equation: $\"%28x-h%29%5E2%2Fa%5E2%2B%28y-k%29%5E2%2Fb%5E2=1\"$ , a>b, (h,k)=coordinates of center
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\n" ); document.write( "center:(-3,1) given
\n" ); document.write( "length of horizontal major axis=4(-1 to -5)=2a
\n" ); document.write( "a=2
\n" ); document.write( "a^2=4
\n" ); document.write( "length of co-vertices=2b
\n" ); document.write( "b=1
\n" ); document.write( "b^2=1
\n" ); document.write( "..
\n" ); document.write( "equation: $\"%28x%2B3%29%5E2%2F4%2B%28y-1%29%5E2%2F1=1\"$ \n" ); document.write( "

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