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JEE Mains · Maths · STD 11 - 10.2 parabola,ellipse,hyperbola

The eccentricity of an ellipse having centre at the origin, axes along the co-ordinate axes and passing through the points \((4,-1)\) and \((-2, 2)\) is

  1. A \(\frac{1}{2}\)
  2. B \(\frac{2}{{\sqrt 5 }}\)
  3. C \(\frac{{\sqrt 3 }}{2}\)
  4. D \(\frac{{\sqrt 3 }}{4}\)
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(C) \(\frac{{\sqrt 3 }}{2}\)

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Centre at \((0,0)\) \(\frac{{{x^2}}}{{{a^2}}} + \frac{{{y^2}}}{{{b^2}}} = 1\) at point \((4,-1)\) \(\frac{{16}}{{{a^2}}} + \frac{1}{{{b^2}}} = 1\) \(16{b^2} + {a^2} = {a^2}{b^2}\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,.......\left( i \right)\) at point \((-2,2)\)…