(723, #47)
Graph the surfaces and on a common screen using the domain
and observe the curve of intersection of these surfaces. Show that the projection of this curve onto the xy-plane is an ellipse.

Solution: The graph confirms that there is an intersecting curve:

As for the projection on the xy-plane:

Thus the parametric equations for the curve of intersection are

The projection of the curve on the xy-plane is (x,y,0) where x and y are as above.

For such (x,y) we have so the projection is an ellipse.

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by: gm