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Find the locus of a point P that moves so that:
PA2 − PB2 = 5

ANSWER IN TEXTBOOK is 8x + 8y - 3 = 0
 

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What are and ? Are you given any coordinates?
 

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Looking at the intended answer, there's not enough information.

For example, the given answer doesn't satisfy and , so and should have been fixed points.
 

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