A Diameter Circle and a Fixed Length
Problem
An ellipse () passes through the point and has eccentricity . Let () be a moving point, and let be the origin.
1. Find the standard equation of the ellipse. 2. Find the equation of the circle that has as a diameter and is cut by the line in a chord of length . 3. Let be the right focus of the ellipse. The line through perpendicular to meets the circle with diameter at a point . Prove that the length of the segment is a constant, and find this constant.
Answer
Solution
| Difficulty | 7/10 |
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| Topics | Circles, conic sections, analytic geometry |
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