SOLUTION: Please help me find the x and y intercepts of this circle: 9x^2 + 9x^2 -6x +12y -31=0

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Question 314735: Please help me find the x and y intercepts of this circle: 9x^2 + 9x^2 -6x +12y -31=0
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source):
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is most emphatically not a circle. Can't be a circle without a y-squared term. However, I suspect you made a little typo and really meant:

Complete the square on x:

Complete the square on y:

And put the rest of the constant in the RHS

Multiply both sides by

Circle, center at and radius 2.

Substitute zero for

Hence, the intercepts are: and

Just substitute 0 for y in the circle equation and do the arithmetic as above to find the -intercepts.

John