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Intro Problem: The diagram of the west wing of the White House is shown below. Using a grid of this wing (where the center of the area is at (0,0)), the equation of the Oval Office is:
What is the length of the major and minor axis for the Oval Office? This tells us how long and wide the Oval Office is.
Answer: The minor axis (horizontal length) is 30 feet. The major axis (vertical length) is 36 feet.
An explanation for a few other ellipses is provided below:
Example 1:
Example 2:
Optional Project 19: Variables 'h', 'k', 'a', 'b' have been initialized.
h is the x-coordinate of the center of the ellipse (1 for both examples)
k is the y-coordinate of the center of the ellipse (-2 for the first example and 1 for the second example)
a is the "horizontal radius" of the ellipse (2 for the first example and 4 for the second example)
b is the "vertical radius" of the ellipse (4 for the first example and 2 for the second example)
Task: Appropriately initialize the values of 'majorAxis' and 'minorAxis'. These variables represent the length of the major and minor axes.
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Universal Computational Math Methods:
pow(5,2) returns 25.0
abs(-3.0) returns 3
sqrt(49.0) returns 7.0
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