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Focus on Ellipses on the Casio ClassPad

Draw an ellipse and create a table of the distance of a point on the circumference to each of its foci:

      

We can now drag this table into the geometry module and we see that it is a straight line. 

  

We can find its equation by superimposing an actual line:

Interpret the slope and intercept of this line.