The sides of a nuclear power plant cooling tower form a hyperbola. The diameter of the...

 

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The sides of a nuclear power plant cooling tower form a hyperbola. The diameter of the bottom of the tower is 280 feet. The smallest ditameter of the tower is 170 whichs 424 feet above the ground. The tower is 598 feet tall. 170 ft 598 ft 424 ft 280 ft me ,cc Find the width of the tower at a height of 140 feet, to t decimal place. feet. Question Help: e Message instructor Submit Question • Question 13 B0/1 pt 02 S99 O Details Two LORAN radio stations A and Bare 100 klometers apart and send a simultaneous radio signal to a ship. P The signal from Barrives 0.0002 seconds before the signal from A. It the signal travels 300,000 kilameters per second, find the equation of the hyperbola on which the ship is positioned. Use a coordirate sstem where the orlgin is the midpoint between the stations, and the stations bie on the axis. Question Help Message instructar The sides of a nuclear power plant cooling tower form a hyperbola. The diameter of the bottom of the tower is 280 feet. The smallest ditameter of the tower is 170 whichs 424 feet above the ground. The tower is 598 feet tall. 170 ft 598 ft 424 ft 280 ft me ,cc Find the width of the tower at a height of 140 feet, to t decimal place. feet. Question Help: e Message instructor Submit Question • Question 13 B0/1 pt 02 S99 O Details Two LORAN radio stations A and Bare 100 klometers apart and send a simultaneous radio signal to a ship. P The signal from Barrives 0.0002 seconds before the signal from A. It the signal travels 300,000 kilameters per second, find the equation of the hyperbola on which the ship is positioned. Use a coordirate sstem where the orlgin is the midpoint between the stations, and the stations bie on the axis. Question Help Message instructar