Practice Problems

  1. Write an equation for an ellipse centered at the origin, which has foci at ‍(\pm5,0) and vertices at ‍‍(\pm\sqrt{41},0).

  2. Write an equation for an ellipse centered at the origin, which has foci at ‍(\pm\sqrt{13},0) and co-vertices at ‍‍(0,\pm11).

  3. Write an equation for an ellipse centered at the origin, which has foci at ‍(\pm8,0) and vertices at ‍‍(\pm17,0).

  4. Write an equation for an ellipse centered at the origin, which has foci at ‍(\pm\sqrt{8},0) and co-vertices at ‍‍(0,\pm\sqrt{10}).


Source: Khan Academy, https://www.khanacademy.org/math/precalculus/x9e81a4f98389efdf:conics/x9e81a4f98389efdf:ellipse-foci/e/equation-of-ellipse-from-foci
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