Practice and Applications

  1. 11. 4x − y − 11 = 0

    A line rises through (0, negative 11) and (eleven-fourths, 0).
  2. 13. 2x + 3y + 3 = 0

    A line falls through (negative 3 over 2, 0) and (0, negative 1).
  3. 15. x2 − 6x + y2 − 1 = 0

    A circle centered on the positive x-axis.
  4. 17. y2 =  − 12x

    A parabola opens leftward with a vertex at (0, 0).
  5. 19. 9x2 + 25y2 = 900

    A horizontal ellipse centered at (0, 0).
  6. 21. 144y2 − 169x2 = 24,336

  7. 23. ( − 3 ,  0) ,  r = 4

  8. 25. (0 ,   − 5) ,  y = 5

  9. 27. V(0 ,  1

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