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Ok I seem to be having problems with changing the general form of a conic to standard form. I'm mainly confused with how to factor, since I haven't done it in a while, as well as how to go about completing the square.
Here's one of my problems:
2x^2 + y^2 + 12x – 2y + 15=0
I rearranged it to look like: 2x^2 + 12x + y^2 – 2y + 15=0
Then I "supposedly" completed the square:
(2x^2 + 12x +36) + (y^2 – 2y +1)= 22
Factoring is where I got stuck: 2(x^2 + 6x +18) + (y-1)^2= 22
I don't know what to do with what I got and the answer is supposed to be:
(x+3)^2 / 2 + (y-1)^2 / 4 = 1
Here's one of my problems:
2x^2 + y^2 + 12x – 2y + 15=0
I rearranged it to look like: 2x^2 + 12x + y^2 – 2y + 15=0
Then I "supposedly" completed the square:
(2x^2 + 12x +36) + (y^2 – 2y +1)= 22
Factoring is where I got stuck: 2(x^2 + 6x +18) + (y-1)^2= 22
I don't know what to do with what I got and the answer is supposed to be:
(x+3)^2 / 2 + (y-1)^2 / 4 = 1