Short-cut for Ellipse

Any shortcut method to find out the length of major and minor axes of an ellipse from its standard 2nd degree equation?

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redox ·

translation of axes

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kunl ·

yo!

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swordfish ·

Without completing the squares, find out the length of major and minor axes.

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sankettopper gupta ·

why do you need a shortcut in the case which itself is short.

a shortcut will be required in the case where the equation of the ellipse is like ax2+by2+2λxy +.. something like that where you have to rotat e the axis by tanθ=2h/a-b

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sagnik sarkar ·

@swordfish

Firstly find the centre of the ellipse which here comes out to be (-5,2)
Now, put x=-5 + r cos(theta)
y=2 + r sin(theta) in the eqn of the ellipse,

then maximising r we can get length of major axis= 2 * r(max)

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