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Mj12

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Find the center, foci, and vertices of the hyperbola 9x^2- y^2+54x+2y+71=0. I have completed the square but after that I am lost! Help please...- Megan Breanne
 
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PS This is not Advanced Math.
 
Mj12 said:
Find the center, foci, and vertices of the hyperbola 9x^2- y^2+54x+2y+71=0. I have completed the square but after that I am lost! Help please...- Megan Breanne

Show your work of completing the square.
 
After I complete the square I get. (x^2+3)/ -81 + (y^2+1) / -81 =1..... which I think I maybe wrong, but after that I am lost.
 
Mj12 said:
After I complete the square I get. (x^2+3)/ -81 + (y^2+1) / -81 =1..... which I think I maybe wrong, but after that I am lost.

I do not see completed squares in your answer. Please show complete work.

How did you get the answer you have posted?
 
Sorry lol it's a lot a type on an iPhone sorry haha.9x^2-y^2+54x+2y+71...... make it 9(x^2+6x+_) + -y^2+2y+_=-71..... and I do half of 6 which is 3 and square it which makes 9. And half of 2y^2 which is one. Square it and get 1... So I plug those in and subtract from -71. Which makes... 9(x^2+6x+9) - y^2+ 2y+1= -81.. and I divide all by -81 and get... (x^2+3)/-81 + (y^2+1)/-81= 1... and that is what I did...
 
Sorry lol it's a lot a type on an iPhone sorry haha.9x^2-y^2+54x+2y+71...... make it 9(x^2+6x+_) + -y^2+2y+_=-71..... and I do half of 6 which is 3 and square it which makes 9. And half of 2y^2 which is one. Square it and get 1... So I plug those in and subtract from -71. Which makes... 9(x^2+6x+9) - y^2+ 2y+1= -81.. and I divide all by -81 and get... (x^2+3)/-81 + (y^2+1)/-81= 1... and that is what I did...
 
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