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An arch 18m high has the form of a parabola with a vertical axis. The length of a horizontal beam
placed across the arch 8 m from the top is 64 m. Find the width of the arch at the bottom.
The major axis of the elliptical path in which the earth moves around the sun is approximately
186,000,000 miles and the eccentricity of the ellipse is 1/60. Determine the apogee of the earth. (Apogee
refers to the greatest distance of the earth from the sun).
What is the height of the parabolic arch which has a span of 48 ft and having a height of 20 ft at a
distance of 16 ft from the center of the span?
Find the length of the tangent from point (6,4) to the circe x2 + y2 + 4x + 6y - 19 = 0.
The earth's orbit is an ellipse with the sun as one of the foci. If the farthest distance of the sun
from the earth is 105.50 million kilometers and the nearest distance of the sun from the earth is 78.25
million kilometers, find the eccentricity of the ellipse.
A parabolic arch has a height of 25 ft and a span of 40 ft. How high is the arch 8 ft each side of
the center?
An overpass arch is semi-elliptical, 40 m across the base and 15 m high at the center. What is the
maximum height of truck, 10 m wide at the top which can pass through the overpass?
A semi-ellipse and a parabola rest on the same base 60 m wide and 20 m high. Using the
common base as x-axis, compute the difference of ordinates at points 25 m from the center of the base.
Show that the points A(8,2), B(3,8), and C(-2,2) are the vertices of an isosceles triangle.
Find the longest and shortest distance from (10,7) to the circle x2 + y2 - 4x - 2y - 20 = 0.
The orbit of the earth is an ellipse with the sun at a focus, the semi-major axes 93 million miles,
and the eccentricity is 1/60. Find the greatest and least distance of the earth from the sun.
An arch in the form of a parabolic curive with a vertical axis is 60 m across the bottom. The
highest point is 16 m above the horizontal base. What is the length of a beam placed horizontally across
the arch 3 m below the top?