Practice problem
The Foci of an Ellipse
The eccentricity of an ellipse is a value . There are many ways to define eccentricity; one way to describe it is that the lower the eccentricity, the more "circular" an ellipse is.
One way to calculate the eccentricity of an ellipse is , where is the distance from the center to each focus and is the length of the semi-major axis. (This is the same found in the equation for an ellipse.)
That being said, if is an ellipse with center and eccentricity , and the farthest distance between two points on is , which of these could be the coordinates of the foci?