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Reduce the equation to one of the standard forms, classify the surface, and sketch it.

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Reduce the equation to one of the standard forms, classify the surface, and sketch it.

asked Feb 17, 2015 in CALCULUS by anonymous

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Step 1:

The equation is .

Rearrange the terms.

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Reduce the above equation into the standard form of conic.

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Divide each side by 4.

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The reduced function resembles the standard form of ellipsoid image, where image and image.

Solution:

Standard form of the equation is image.

The surface resembles ellipsoid.

answered Feb 24, 2015 by Lucy Mentor

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