Find the equation for a hyperbola with a center at (0,0)\left(0,0\right)(0,0), focus at (0,−6)\left(0,-6\right)(0,−6) and vertex at (0,4)\left(0,4\right)(0,4) .

y 2 16 − x 2 20 = 1 \frac{y^2}{16}-\frac{x^2}{20}=1 16 y 2 − 20 x 2 = 1

Find the equation for a hyperbola with a center at ( 0 , 0 ) \left(0,0\right) ( 0 , 0 ) , focus at ( 0 , − 6 ) \left(0,-6\right) ( 0 , − 6 ) and vertex at ( 0 , 4 ) \left(0,4\right) ( 0 , 4 ) .

Hey everyone. So let's give this problem a try. So we are asking this problem to find the equation for a hyperbola with a center at zero zero, a focus at zero negative six, and a vertex at zero four. So we're given all the details of this hyperbola, and we're now asked to work backwards and find the equation for it. Now before I do anything, what I'm actually going to do is write out a graph. Because what I can do with this graph is find about what this hyperbola is going to look like, and predict what the equation is going to be from this graph. So now that I have the graph written, let's see what we've got. Now I see that we have a focus at zero negative six. So what that means and we're centered at zero zero, so if our center is here, then our focus is going to be somewhere down here one two three four five six units. This right here would be the focus zero negative six. Now we also have a vertex at zero four. So what that means is if we go up one, two, three, four units, we're going to have the vertex be right about here at zero four. So this is the vertex and then this is the focus, and this actually tells me a lot about the hyperbola already. What this tells me is that we're going to have a hyperbola with vertices at zero four and zero negative four because we have to have evenness with the hyperbola, and we're going to have our foci at zero negative six and then up to two more units at zero positive six. This would be our other focus point. And that also tells me that we must have a hyperbola which is vertical since it opens this direction and that direction. So that's what we have so far. Now from this point, what I can do is recognize since we have a vertical hyperbola that the equation is going to be y squared first over a squared equal or excuse me, minus x squared over b squared is equal to one. And from here I just need to figure out what a and b are to solve this problem. Well to find a it's pretty straightforward because a is the distance to the two vertices. Since it's four units to get up and four units to get down to the two vertices that means a is equal to four. Now finding b is a little bit more tricky since we don't have the b values given to us, but what I can do is use the foci and the vertices to find this. Recall that for the foci the distance is c. So this would be a c distance to get up here and a c distance to get down there. And c squared is equal to a squared plus b squared for a hyperbola. Now we have that c is going to be six units up or six units down so c would be six. We have that a is gonna be four. We already discussed that right here. So we have four squared and this is all plus b squared and at this point all I need to do is solve for b. So what I can do is recognize that six squared is 36, four squared is 16, and this is plus b squared. I can subtract 16 on both sides of this equation giving us that b squared is equal to 36 minuteus 16 which is 20. If I take the square root on both sides that will give me that b is equal to the square root of 20. So what I can do is plug the a and the b into the equation we have up here. So we'll have y squared over and then this is four four right there, so four squared. So y squared over four squared minus x squared over square root of 20 squared is equal to one. And four squared is 16, and then the square and the square root will cancel giving me y squared over 16, minus x squared over 20 is equal to one. And this right here is the equation for the hyperbola. So notice how we were able to take the center focus and vertex, and we were able to work backwards to find this equation. So that's how you can solve these types of problems. Hope you found this helpful.

Find the equation for a hyperbola with a center at ( 0 , 0 ) \left(0,0\right) ( 0 , 0 ) , focus at ( 0 , − 6 ) \left(0,-6\right) ( 0 , − 6 ) and vertex at ( 0 , 4 ) \left(0,4\right) ( 0 , 4 ) .

y 2 16 − x 2 20 = 1 \frac{y^2}{16}-\frac{x^2}{20}=1 16 y 2 − 20 x 2 = 1

y 2 20 − x 2 16 = 1 \frac{y^2}{20}-\frac{x^2}{16}=1 20 y 2 − 16 x 2 = 1

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16. Parametric Equations & Polar Coordinates

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Multiple Choice

Find the equation for a hyperbola with a center at $\left(0,0\right)$ , focus at $\left(0,-6\right)$ and vertex at $\left(0,4\right)$ .

$\frac{y^2}{16}-\frac{x^2}{20}=1$

$\frac{y^2}{20}-\frac{x^2}{16}=1$

$\frac{y^2}{4}-\frac{x^2}{\sqrt{20}}=1$

$\frac{y^2}{\sqrt{20}}-\frac{x^2}{4}=1$

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Step 1: Identify the type of hyperbola. Since the center is at (0,0) and the focus is vertically aligned, the hyperbola opens vertically. The standard form of a vertical hyperbola is:

\frac{y^{2}}{a^{2}} - \frac{x^{2}}{b^{2}} = 1

Step 2: Determine the value of 'a'. The distance from the center to the vertex is the value of 'a'. Since the vertex is at (0,4), the distance is 4. Therefore,

a^{2} = 16

Step 3: Determine the value of 'c'. The distance from the center to the focus is the value of 'c'. Since the focus is at (0,-6), the distance is 6. Therefore,