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Foci of an ellipse
CONCEPTS
Foci / Focus
• 2 points whose sum of distances from any point on the ellipse is always the same. They lie on the ellipse's major radius
• f² = p² − q² (f = foci, p = major radius or a in the ellipse equation, q = minor radius or b in the ellipse equation)

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