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Let the eccentricity of an ellipse is reciprocal to that of the hyperbola . If the ellipse intersects the hyperbola at right angles, then square of length of the latus-rectum of the ellipse is _____.
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Given,
The eccentricity of an ellipse is reciprocal to that of the hyperbola ,
Now eccentricity of rectangular hyperbola is
So,
Now, focus of hyperbola
Now given that both curve intersect orthogonally, so ellipse and hyperbola are confocal
So, for ellipse
Now length of latusrectum
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