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Whats the radius for 5x^2+5y^2-3x=0 rewrite the equattion in standard form showing that the equation

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Whats the radius for 5x^2+5y^2-3x=0 rewrite the equattion in standard form showing that the equation represents a circle?

asked Feb 7, 2015 in PRECALCULUS by anonymous

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Step 1:

The conic equation image.

Standard form of circle image, where image is center and image is radius of circle.

Convert the equation into standard form.

Completing square.

image

image

Change the expression, image into a perfect square trinomial.

Add (half the x coefficient)² to each side of the equation.

image.

image

image

Divide each side by 5.

image

image

image.

Compare with standard form of circle image.

Center image and radius is image.

Solution:

Standard form of the circle is image.

Radius is image units

answered Feb 9, 2015 by david Expert

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