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I live in Montreal, Canada, and I have to apply to Universities soon. After asking every person I know about engineering, I've finally decided to try Computer Engineering. The university I'm thinking of is called McGill and is located in the island of Montreal. McGill is very famous for...

Oh wow!Thank you! I tried the method you told me (Dick) and it worked! Thank you so much!

Sure, no problem. If it helps, I'm doing this in a Multivariable calculus course, right after partial derivatives section. I'll try again and I'll also ask my classmates. Thank you, I'll check this page again later.

Yeah, that means that b=2. However, I also have the answers at the back of the book and it says that a=sqrt(6)/2 and b=3sqrt(2)/2. I don't know exactly how to combine the formulas and use those to create a system of equations... I tried integrating 1/4 of the area of the ellipse with respect...

This is how the book describes the problem: If the ellipse x2/a2+y2/b2=1 is to enclose the circle x2+y2=2y, what values of a and b minimize the are of the ellipse? First of all I completed the square for the second equation and I got: x2+(y-1)2=1. I isolated the x2 and substituted it into...