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Q.

A ladder 12 units long slides in a vertical plane with its ends in contact with a vertical wall and a horizontal floor along the x-axis. If the locus of a point on the ladder 4 units from its foot is an ellipse, then the ratio of the length of the major axis to the minor axis is

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answer is 2.

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Given the length of ladder =12=s  The locus of a point on the ladder=4=k  The equation of the locus of a point from one end is x2(s-k)2+y2k2=1 x2(12-4)2+y242=1 x264+y216=1 Now a:b=8:4=2

 

 

 
 

 

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