An arch for a bridge over a highway is in the form of half an ellipse.The top of the arch is 20 feet above the ground level (the major axis).The highway has four lanes, each 12 feet wide; a center safety strip 8 feet wide; and two side strips, each 4 feet wide.What should the span of the bridge be (the length of its major axis) if the height 28 feet from the center is to be 13 feet?

Q: An elliptical riding path is to be built on a rectangular piece of property, as shown below. The…

A: The general equation of eclipse is x²/a² + y² / b² = 1

Q: Claude has a piece of cheese in the shape of a cone. He uses a straight cut to slice off a smaller…

A: After cutting a cone at different angles, we get different shapes.The surface or outline of the…

Q: The Oval Office in the White House is in the shape of an ellipse. The office is 12 feet wide and 20…

A: oval office is in ellipse shape  width of ellipse = 12 ft legth = 20 ft

Vertices Of An Ellipse

In the study of the conic section of the geometry, An ellipse is a plane curve surrounding two focal points, or foci where the set of all locus of points in the plane has their sum of the distances to the two foci is constant. On the ellipse curve, it is the intersection point of the main axis. In an ellipse graph, the center of the axis is the midpoint of the line segment connecting the foci. The major axis is the line section that runs through the ellipse's foci, while the minor axis runs through the middle and is perpendicular to the major axis.. The ellipse has two endpoints on the major axis which are known as the vertices (in plural), vertex in the singular. The equation of the major axis is 2a, the equation of the minor is 2b and the distance between the major axis and minor axis is 2c. The semi-major axis has a length of a and the semi-minor axis has a length of b. The ellipse's vertices are determined by the elliptical orbit's equation and graph.