PRE - CALCULUS

1. What is the angle between the tangents at the end points of the latus rectum of a parabola?

2. The line 2x – 3y + 2 = 0 is perpendicular to another line L₁ of unknown equation. Find the slope of L₁.

3. A parabola has its focus at (7,-4) and directrix y = 2. Find its equation.

4. 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.

5. The equation 3x² + 2x – 5y + 7 = 0 represents what curve?

6. Find the equation of the hyperbola with center at (4, -1), transverse axis parallel to the y-axis, distance between
foci 10, latus rectum 9/2.

7. Suppose a satellite is in an elliptical orbit with a = 4420 and b = 4416 and with the center of the Earth being at one
of the foci of the ellipse. Assuming the Earth has a radius of about 3960 mi, find the lowest altitude of the satellite
above the Earth.

8. How far from the x-axis is the focus F of the hyperbola x² – 2y² + 4x + 4y + 4 = 0?

9. A line with an inclination of 45° passes through (-5/2,-9/2). What is the x-coordinate of a point on the line if its
corresponding y-coordinate is 6?

10. What is the angle between an asymptote of the hyperbola x² – 4y² – 2x – 63 = 0 and the x-axis?

11. Find the slope of the line having a parametric equation y = 4t + 6 and x = t + 1.

12. What is the length of the latus rectum of 4x² + 9y² + 8x – 32 = 0?

13. The vertices of the base of an isosceles triangle are at (-1,-2) and (1,4). Find the area of the triangle if its third
vertex lies on the line 4x + 3y – 12 = 0.

14. A line passes through point (2, 2). Find the equation of the line if the length of the line segment intercepted by the
coordinates axes is the square root of 5.

15. Identify what type of conic section is r = 5/(4 – 8sinθ).

16. Find the eccentricity of the curve 9x² – 4y² – 36x + 8y = 4.

17. What is the acute angle between the lines y = 3x + 2 and y = 4x + 9?

18. Find the equation of a straight line with a slope of 3 and a y-intercept of 1.

19. A curve has a general equation of the form Ax² + By² + F = 0. If it passes through (4,0) and (0,3), find the specific
equation.

20. Find the equation of the directrix of the parabola y² = 16x.

21. What is the equation of the line joining the points (3, -2) and (-7, 6)?
22. The equation 25x² + 16y² – 150 x + 128 y + 81 = 0 has its center at _____.

23. Line A whose equation x/5 + y/a = 1 passes through (13, 32). Line B parallel to line A has an equation of x/b + y/3
= 1. Find the distance between the two lines.

24. What is the locus of a point that moves in a plane so that the difference of the distances from two fixed points of
the locus is constant?

25. The two points in the line 2x + 3y + 4 = 0 which are at a distance 2 from the line 3x + 4y – 6 = 0 are: