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[boat460]

In a test, we were asked to state the eccentricity of a rectangular hyperbola.
I put e>1 is this right? Will I be marked wrong? D:

 

[seanieg89]

The key word is rectangular.

There is only one rectangular hyperbola (up to reflection, translation, dilation, rotation etc), and its eccentricity is .

 

[D94]

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RectangularHyperbola.html

The answer is specific, your answer isn't valid.

 

[boat460]

I got it now thanks