oliviamoll516 oliviamoll516
  • 02-02-2018
  • Mathematics
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The foci of an ellipse can be outside the ellipse.

True or false?

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annastasia
annastasia annastasia
  • 02-02-2018
false

foci of an ellipse cannot be outside the ellipse
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jajumonac jajumonac
  • 19-04-2020

Answer:

False.

Step-by-step explanation:

An elipse is defined as a bidimensional curve that surrounds two focals points, where the sum of the two distances to the focal points is a constant.

As you can deduct, the focal points of an elipse are inside of it.

Therefore, this statement is false.

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