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OpenStudy (anonymous):

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OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (luigi0210):

You know the standard equation right?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

x^2/a^2+y^2/b^2=1 ?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

@Luigi0210

OpenStudy (luigi0210):

Sorry, give me some time to try and remember this

OpenStudy (anonymous):

no problem :)

OpenStudy (luigi0210):

I'm guessing it'd be c..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

how'd u get that??

OpenStudy (luigi0210):

because they're saying that radius of the moon is 567, and that the surface from both sides are 900 and 169, so i added them together to get the full radius of the ellipse.

OpenStudy (luigi0210):

And the longer side is on the y-axis so y should have the larger value. Am I right?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yeah since it's larger! I mean that reasoning makes sense to me, usually I can do this type, but the word problem and picture threw me off a bit lol! thank you :)

OpenStudy (luigi0210):

You're welcome :)

OpenStudy (anonymous):

hey @Luigi0210 do you anything about vertical asymptotes by any chance?

OpenStudy (luigi0210):

Do you mean like in a problem?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

yeah well I think I solved a problem correctly but I just want to double check with someone who knows Lol!

OpenStudy (luigi0210):

Yea I got a pretty good idea on it.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

okay so in the question I have to find the vertical asymptotes of \[\lim_{x \rightarrow 5-} x/x-5\] I got that as oo,5

OpenStudy (anonymous):

well I have to find the limit and vertical asymptotes but the limit is already given as -5

OpenStudy (luigi0210):

The vertical asymptote is 5

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Yay so I got it right sort of. LOl

OpenStudy (luigi0210):

Just remember, you get it by setting the denominator equal to zero and solving. The limit should be -infinity, or DNE if you don't accept infinity as an answer yet.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

ahh okay so -oo not oo thank you :)

OpenStudy (luigi0210):

|dw:1378145714593:dw| Yup, as you see the graph is going down on the left.

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