Question

A surfboard company would like to design a new long board in the shape of an ellipse. The surfboard should be 10 feet long and 2 feet wide. Find the equation of the surfboard. Assume that the center is located at (0,0) that the surfboard is lying on the ground horizontally, and that one foot is equivalent to one coordinate unit.

Answer 1

The semi-major axis has length 5, and the semi-minor axis has length 1. The equation can be written

... (x/5)² +y² = 1