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Applications of Conics

Question 6 • Precalculus

A cooling tower is 120 meters tall. The sides of the tower are in the shape of a hyperbola defined by the equation with units in meters. The center of the tower is at the origin. How wide is the tower at the top?

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Answer
A
50 m
B
92 m
C
100 m
D
184 m
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