A Constructed Tangent Line
Problem
The ellipse () has focal distance and passes through the point .
1. Find the equation of the ellipse . 2. Let (with ) be a point on . Drop the perpendicular from to the -axis, with foot . Take , join , and draw the line through perpendicular to , meeting the -axis at a point . Let be the reflection of across the -axis, and draw the line . Must the line constructed this way always have exactly one common point with the ellipse ? Justify your answer.
Answer
Solution
| Difficulty | 7/10 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Pole and Polar, conic sections, analytic geometry |
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