A restaurant receives a shipment of
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Answer:
D
Step-by-step explanation:
The formula we need to solve this is:
Where
is the distance from one focus to the vertex
is the second distance from another focus to same vertex
<u>Note:</u> Here, vertex point is the point on top. The common point from which the RED and BLUE line meets the 2 foci
is half the length of the major axis (which is 9 here since total major axis is given as 18)
<em>Now we can plug into the equation and solve:</em>
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<em>D is the correct answer.</em>
Given
We have to set the restraint
because a square root is non-negative, and thus it can't equal a negative number. With this in mind, we can square both sides:
The solutions to this equation are 7 and -2. Recalling that we can only accept solutions greater than or equal to -1, 7 is a feasible solution, while -2 is extraneous.
Similarly, we have
So, we have to impose
Squaring both sides, we have
The solutions to this equation are 5 and 10. Since we only accept solutions greater than or equal to 7, 10 is a feasible solution, while 5 is extraneous.