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Deriving Ellipse Equation Parameters from a CAD Grid

As an apprentice fabrication technician, you are programming a CNC machine to cut an elliptical mounting bracket out of a sheet of alloy. The part blueprint places the center of the ellipse at the coordinate origin (0, 0). To input the cutting path into your software, you must write the standard-form algebraic equation of this ellipse from its visual blueprint graph.

Recall the standard procedure to find the equation of an ellipse centered at the origin from its graph. State the standard-form equations of an ellipse centered at (0, 0) (for both horizontal and vertical major axes), and explain how the denominators of the x2x^2 and y2y^2 terms are calculated using the coordinates of the graph's intercepts.

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