Answer:
x^2/25 +y^2/9 = 1
Step-by-step explanation:
You can think of an ellipse as a circle with a different scale factor in the x-direction than in the y-direction. When either dimension is stretched by a factor of k, the corresponding variable (v) is replaced by (v/k).
Here, the unit circle
x^2 +y^2 = 1
is stretched by a factor of 3 vertically (in the y-direction) and a factor of 5 horizontally (in the x-direction). That means we can replace x with (x/5) and y with (y/3) in the above equation to get ...
(x/5)^2 +(y/3)^2 = 1
Traditionally, the denominator is written as a number, not a square, so the equation would be ...
x^2/25 +y^2/9 = 1
