cookie007
Mar 1, 2010, 11:08 PM
what is the focus of
4x^2-25y^2=100
ebaines
Mar 2, 2010, 09:15 AM
First - do you recognize that this is te hequatio of a hyperbola?You need to put the equation into the standard form for a hyperbola:
\frac {x^2} {A^2} - \frac {y^2} {B^2} = 1
The focus can then be found from:
C^2 = A^2 + B^2