Question

What are the steps in finding the verticies and foci for ellipses?

Answer 1

write the equation in standard form
like this
\[\frac{ (x-\alpha)^2 }{ a^2 }+\frac{ (x-\beta)^2 }{ b^2 }=1\\if:a>b\\c^2=a^2-b^2\]
so
you can find c
center is (alpha,beta) and
center+ c ,center-c are foci

Answer 2

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