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Question

A focus of an ellipse is at the origin. The directrix is the line  x = 4 and the eccentricity is 1/2. Then the length of the semi-major axis, is  

Solution

Correct option is

8/3

 

Let the length of semi-major and semi-minor axes be a and brespectively  

We have, 

Distance between focus and directrix = 4. 

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