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Find an equation in standard form for the ellipse with the vertical major axis of length 18, and minor axis of length 6.

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asked Aug 7, 2014 in CALCULUS by Tdog79 Pupil

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The ellipse is vertical.

Consider the center of ellipse = (0,0)

Standard form of vertical ellipse with center at origin is image

Where image

a = length of semi major axis

b = length of semi minor axis

In this case image

image

Substitute the a,b values in above standard form.

Therfore, the ellipse equation is image

answered Aug 7, 2014 by david Expert

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