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OpenStudy (anonymous):

A semielliptic archway has a height of 20ft. and a width of 50ft. as shown in the figure, can a truck 14ft. high and 10 feet wide drive under the archway without going into the other line?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

can you kelp me

OpenStudy (dumbcow):

yes, so you need to define the ellipse which models the archway major axis = 50 --> a = 25 minor axis = 40 --> b=20 (x^2/625) + (y^2/400) = 1

OpenStudy (anonymous):

okay so is that the equation

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