Mathematics

Problem

61. Group Activity Group Activities In Exercises 59 and 60, solve the system of equations algebraically and support your answer graphically. Consider the system of equations

\begin{aligned} & \frac{x^{2}}{4}-\frac{y^{2}}{25}=1 \\ & \frac{x^{2}}{25}+\frac{y^{2}}{4}=1 \end{aligned}

(a) Solve the system graphically. (b) If you have access to a grapher that also does symbolic algebra, use it to find the the exact solutions to the system.

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