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<h3>Two answers: 5, 7</h3>
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Explanation:
A drawing may be helpful to see what's going on. Check out the diagram below. This is one way of drawing out the two triangles. The locations of the points don't really matter, and neither does the the orientation of how you rotate things. What does matter is we have the right points connected to form the segments mentioned.
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For now, focus on triangle TIP only. In order to have this be isosceles, we must make TP = 5 or TP = 7.
If TP = 5, then it's the same length as TI.
If TP = 7, then it's the same length as PI.
In either case, we have exactly two sides the same length (the other side different) which is what it means for a triangle to be isosceles.
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Let's consider triangle TOP. For it to be isosceles, we must have two sides the same length. We already locked in TP to be either 5 or 7 in the previous section above. So there's no way that TP could be 11 units long to match up with PO = 11.
If TP = 5, then OT must also be 5 units long so that triangle TOP is isosceles.
If TP = 7, then OT = 7 for similar reasoning.
Either way, TP only has two choices on what it could be.
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In short, we basically just write the first two values given to us to get the two triangles to be isosceles. We can't use TP = 11 as it would make triangle TIP to be scalene (all sides are different lengths).
I don't know if we can find the foci of this ellipse, but we can find the centre and the vertices. First of all, let us state the standard equation of an ellipse.
(If there is a way to solve for the foci of this ellipse, please let me know! I am learning this stuff currently.)
Where
is the centre of the ellipse. Just by looking at your equation right away, we can tell that the centre of the ellipse is:
Now to find the vertices, we must first remember that the vertices of an ellipse are on the major axis.
The major axis in this case is that of the y-axis. In other words,
So we know that b=5 from your equation given. The vertices are 5 away from the centre, so we find that the vertices of your ellipse are:
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I really hope this helped you! (Partially because I spent a lot of time on this lol)
Sincerely,
~Cam943, Junior Moderator
(If there is a way to solve for the foci of this ellipse, please let me know! I am learning this stuff currently.)
Where
Now to find the vertices, we must first remember that the vertices of an ellipse are on the major axis.
The major axis in this case is that of the y-axis. In other words,
So we know that b=5 from your equation given. The vertices are 5 away from the centre, so we find that the vertices of your ellipse are:
&
I really hope this helped you! (Partially because I spent a lot of time on this lol)
Sincerely,
~Cam943, Junior Moderator