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In a cooling tower design, a structural beam represented by a line with slope
1
1
1
passes through the focus of the hyperbolic cross-section
x
2
16
−
y
2
9
=
1
\frac{x^{2}}{16} - \frac{y^{2}}{9} = 1
16
x
2
−
9
y
2
=
1
. Find the length of this focal chord.
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