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Question 815573: Please help me convert this hyperbola into standard form (x-9)^2/4+(y+3)^2/9=1
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Question 815570: Can you please help me convert this ellipse into general form (x-9)^2/4-(y+3)^2/9=1
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Question 815569: Can you please help me convert this line into general form (x-9)^2/4+(y+3)^2/9=1
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Question 815569: Can you please help me convert this line into general form (x-9)^2/4+(y+3)^2/9=1
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Question 815571: Please help me convert this parabola into standard form y=3x^2+24x+42
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Question 815568: Can you please help me convert this line into general form y=3(x+4)^-6
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Question 815515: I have to determine if this is a circle (and find the radius and center) a parabola (find the vertex focus and directrix) or if is an ellipse or hiperbola find the foci and sketch it. My problem to solve is y^-2y+16x-31= 0
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Question 815611: Write the vertex form of the equation with the vertex at the origin, and the focus at (0,-1)
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Question 815875: Graph each hyberbola by hand. Give domain and range and center.
(y - 5)^2 over 4 - (x + 1)^2 over 9 = 1
Your help in solving this problem is greatly appreciated! Thank you!
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Question 816231: How do you write an equation for a parabola going through points (0,0) and (32,0)?
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Question 816441: find the vertex, the focus, and the directrix. then draw the graph
x^2-16y=0
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Question 816543: Your help is needed and appreciated in solving this problem. Thanks!
Divide as indicated. Write each quotient in standard form.
-3 + 4i over 2 - i

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Question 816537: Please help me solve this problem. Thanks in advance!
A baseball is hit so that its height in feet after t seconds is
s(t) = -16t^2 + 44t + 4.
(a) How high is the baseball after 1 second?
(b) Find the maximum height of the baseball.

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Question 817019: It is asking to write this in standard form. The teacher got 2 for r^2 but I keep getting 8. Here is the equation: 4x^2+4y^2-20x-32y+81
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Question 816974: Please help me solve 9x^2+25y^2-36x+50y-164=0
I know I have to solve by completing the square, but my answer does not match up to the one in back of book. When I completed the square I got:
9x^2-36x+324+25y^2+50y+625=1113
I don't think I am completing the square correctly???
(36/2)^2, I got 18^2 =324 and (50/2)^2, I got 25^2=625.
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Question 816548: find the standard form of the equation of the ellipse satisfying the given conditions.
Foci:(0,-2), (0,2); x-intercept: -2 and 2

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Question 817124: x^2+2x-4y+17=0
Find Vertex and Directrix of the parabola
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Question 816426: How do you write an equation for an upside down parabola going through points (0,0) (24,12) and (32,0)?
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Question 817322: What is the equation of the hyperbola with vertices (0,4) and (0,-4) and asymptotic y=(1/3)x and y=(-1/3x)
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Question 817626: what is the latus rectum of this equation?
y^2-12y+16x+36=0
standard form = (y-6)^2=-16x
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Question 817425: write equation for hyperbola with verticies (6,8) (6,0) and asymptotoes y=8(x-6)
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Question 817880: Help needed please & thank you.
Checking Analytic Skills � For each quadratic function defined in this problem, (a) use the vertex formula to find the coordinates of the vertex and (b) graph the function. Do not use a calculator.
P(x) = -3x^2 + 24x - 46

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Question 817892: Help PLEASE & Thank You!
Solve each inequality analytically. Support your answers graphically. Give exact values for endpoints.
(a) x^2 + 4x + 3 greater than or equal to zero
(b) x^2 + 4x + 3 less than zero

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Question 817900: What are the foci for the equation 27x^2+9y^2=81
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Question 817916: A vertical parabola has a vertex at (-3,-2) and passes through the point (-1,7). Find the equation of the parabola, the equation of the directrix, and the coordinates of the focus point.
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Question 817886: Need to solve this equation by hand. Please help me. Thanks!
√2x+3 - √x+1 = 1
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Question 817932: Please help me transform this to standard form, label the centers and mark the radius. Thanks a million

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Question 818004: The foci of a ellipse are F1(2,0) and F2(-2,0) and the sum of the focal radii is 6 units. Find the equation.
Thanks so much in advance:)
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Question 817915: Name the coordinates of the four vertices, the two foci, and the equations of the major and minor axes for the ellipse 25x^2+4y^2-150x+32y+189=0
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Question 817914: Name the coordinates of the two vertices,the two foci, and find the equations of the asymptotes for the hyperbola 16x^2-y^2+96x+8y+112=0
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Question 818442: An ellipse has center ( 0,0) and one vertex a(10,0) . Find the equation of the ellipse if it passes through r(6,4).
Thanks so much in advance
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Question 818627: fine the asymptotes of the hyperbola given by x^2/16-y^2/36=1
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Question 818958: How to get the standard equation from 9x^2+9y^2-441 and it a circle
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Question 818982: How to get the standard form from 25x2+15y2-375
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Question 819032: What the standard equation from x2-4y=0 and-6x+y2
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Question 819092: Your help is needed to solve. Thanks!
Solve logarithmic equation. Express all solutions in exact form. Support your solutions by using a calculator.
Log sub 5(x + 2) + log sub 5(x � 2) = 1

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Question 819196: What are the vertices of 81x^2+9y^2=49
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Question 819407: What is x=4y^2+8y in standard form. I need to find the domain, range, vertex and axis of symmetry and figure I need to find this out first,
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Question 820067: 2x(2) - 24x + ?= write polynomial as a square

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Question 820267: What are the vertices of the following equation?

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Question 820174: PLEASE HELP!!! An ellipse has a center at (-4,6) and passes through (-4,9) and (2,6). Find the equation of the ellipse, the coordinates of the vertices and foci.
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Question 820034: 1. The Foci of a hyperbola are F1(-12,7) and F2(18,7). The difference between the distances from any point, P(x,y), on the hyperbola, to its Foci, is 18. Determine the equation of the hyperbola.
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Question 820350: How do you find the endpoint of (x+4)^2/9 + (y-3)^2/4 = 1
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Question 820427: What is the minor axis of

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