A tangent line is drawn to the hyperbola xy - c at a point P as shown

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A tangent line is drawn to the hyperbola xy - c at a point P as shown in the figure.

(a) Show that the midpoint of the line segment cut from this tangent line by the coordinate axes is P.

(b) Show that the triangle formed by the tangent line and the coordinate axes always has the same area, no matter where P is located on the hyperbola.
yA xy = c P

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Calculus Early Transcendentals

ISBN: 9781337613927

9th Edition

Authors: James Stewart, Daniel K. Clegg, Saleem Watson, Lothar Redlin

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