ASSIGNMENT 2 (A2): (Due: AUGUST 8, 2016)

Solve the following problems.

1. Find the equation of the circle through (-2, 1), (4, -3) and (4, 7)
2. What is the equation of the circle passing through (-4, -4) and tangent to the line 2x 3y
+ 9 = 0 at (-3, 1)?
3. Find the equation of a circle touching the y-axis and passing through the points (3, 1)
and (6, 4).
4. Find the equation of a parabola whose vertex is on x = -2, latus rectum 8, passing
through (-7/8, 4) and whose axis is parallel x-axis.
5. Reduce the given equation 49y2 392x +28y + 732 = 0 to its standard form and sketch
the graph.
6. Find the equation of a parabola with vertex on the line y = 2x, axis parallel to the x-axis
and passing through (3/2, 1) and (3, 4).
7. The cables of a horizontal suspension bridge are supported by two towers 120 feet apart
and 40 feet high. If the cable is 10 feet above the floor of the bridge at the center, find
the equation of the parabola using the midpoint of the bridge as the origin.
8. Find the equation of an ellipse with major axis parallel to x-axis, center at (-3, 1) and
length of latus rectum equal to 1.
9. Find the equation of an ellipse with vertices at (-2, -3) and (8, -3), one end of the minor
axis at (3, -7).
10. Find the equation of an ellipse whose center at (1, 5), major axis parallel to OX, length of
latus rectum 9/4 and distance between foci 2 55 .
11. Find the equation of the hyperbola with center at (-4, 2), transverse axis parallel to the y-
axis, eccentricity 55/ 61 , distance between directrices 61 / 55 .
12. Find the equation of the hyperbola with transverse parallel to the x-axis, center at (6, -3),
slopes of asymptotes numerically 41 / 125 times the distance between directrices, latus
rectum 64/5.
13. Find the coordinates the center, ends of transverse axis, ends of conjugate axis, foci,
ends of latus rectum, equations of diectrices, draw the asymptotes and sketch the graph
of the equation 9x2 9y2 + 15x + 21y 20 = 0.
14. Given the equation 6x2 + 13xy + 6y2 = 25, determine the type of conic, remove xy-term
by rotation of axes, reduce the new equation to a standard form and trace the curve on
the new axes.
15. Given the equation x2 + 2y2 + 6x 4y + 2 = 0, find the point to which the origin must be
translated in order that the transformed equation will have no first-degree term and find
also the new equation.
16. Find the nonnegative polar coordinates of the following rectangular coordinate points.
a) (-5, -12) b) (-4, 3)
17. Find the rectangular coordinates 0f the following polar coordinate points.
a) (-2, -/3) b) (-3, 3/2)
18. Transform the equations into the corresponding polar coordinate equations.
a) x2 2y2 = 4 b) x2 + y2 = 2y
19. Transform the equations into the corresponding rectangular coordinate equations.
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a) r2sin 2 = a2 b) r
sin 2 cos
20. Transform the following parametric equations into the corresponding Cartesian
equations, then trace the curves using the Cartesian equations.
4 4t
a) x 2 ,
y b) x = 2 sec, y = 5 tan
1 t 1 t2