You can put this solution on YOUR website! You first need to get your equation into the standard form, which is:
The center is then (h, k) and the radius is r.
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You are given: , so the first step is to put this into the above form. The technique you need to use is called "Completing The Square." First, I will rewrite the equations a bit to organize the terms properly as follows:
Now comes the Completing The Square part...divide the coefficients of x and y respectively by 2 and square the result. Add this number to both sides of the equation in order to maintain the equality:
Simplifying the right side:
Now you can rewrite the x and y terms as factors which gets you in the needed format:
Now that you have the equation in the proper format, you can easily get the center and the radius.
Good Luck,
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