Ellipse5of8 Using completing the square to put an equation for an ellipse into standard form.
This is the fifth video in a series of eight that takes a comprehensive look at ellipses.
In this video we look at the process of completing the square and then apply that to ellipses. We start with an equation for an ellipse in polynomial form and than use completing the square to convert the equation into standard form.
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