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its me jb
 
Reply Sat 1 Feb, 2014 11:37 am
Find the equations of the two tangents that can be drawn from the point (5, 2) to the ellipse 2x^2 + 7y^2 = 14


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Reply Sat 1 Feb, 2014 02:20 pm
@its me jb,
See here:
math<dot>stackexchange<dot>com/questions/58055/tangent-of-an-ellipse-to-an-outside-point
for two methods.
Replace each <dot> with a period.
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