Exam 8: Topics in Analytic Geometry
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A fountain in a shopping mall has two parabolic arcs of water intersecting as shown below. The equation of one parabola is
and the equation of the second parabola is
.
How high above the base of the fountain do the parabolas intersect? All dimensions are in feet. Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.



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Two radio transmitters are positioned along the coast, 600 miles apart as shown below in the diagram (with d equal to 600 miles). A signal is sent simultaneously from each transmitter. The signal from transmitter
is received by a ship s LORAN 700 microseconds after the ship receives the signal from
. The radio signals travel at 0.186 mile per microsecond. Find an equation of a hyperbola, with foci at
and
, on which the ship is located. Round parameters to the nearest tenth. 





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A circular vent pipe with a diameter of 6.5 inches is placed on a roof that has a slope of
as shown in the figure below.
Use the slope to find the value of h . Round to the nearest hundredths.


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Find the equation in standard form of the hyperbola that satisfies the stated conditions, if it exists. vertices
and
, passing through 



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Ultrasound is used as a nondestructive method of determining whether a support beam for a structure has an internal fracture. In one scanning procedure, if the resulting image is a parabola, engineers know that there is a structural defect. Suppose that a scan produced an image whose equation is
. Determine the vertex and focus of the graph of this parabola.

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Find the vertex, focus, and directrix of the parabola given by the equation. 

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Find the equation in standard form of the parabola with focus
and directrix
.


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Find the equation in standard form of the ellipse, given the information provided. center
, vertices
, foci at 



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Find the equation in standard form of the parabola that has vertex
, has a horizontal axis of symmetry, and passes through the point
.


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Use the eccentricity of the ellipse to find its equation in standard form. eccentricity
, major axis of length 28 on the y -axis, center at (0, 0)

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Find the equation in standard form of the hyperbola that satisfies the stated conditions, if it exists. foci
and
, asymptotes
and 




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Use the Conic Identification Theorem to identify the graph of the equation as a parabola, an ellipse, or a hyperbola. 

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