The egg-shaped outline in the diagram has equation The egg will be decorated with horizontal circles around it.
To 2 decimal places, what is the circumference of the longest horizontal circle for this egg?
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A good equation of an egg is:
( x 2 + y 2 ) 2 = a x 3 + ( a − b ) x y 2 where a ≥ b ≥ 0 and b = 0 . 7 a .
Our egg has a = 2 , b = 1 . 4
In that equation, we can isolate y and differentiate the function. It will produce value of x maximum (radius of our circle) x = ( 2 7 5 6 1 + 5 7 3 ) / 1 1 2 0 The exact value is of the circle circumference is: 5 6 0 1 π 6 ( 2 4 3 1 5 6 1 + 5 2 0 8 9 ) ) ≈ 4 . 5 5