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Standard Form of a Vertical Hyperbola with Center
For a hyperbola centered at the origin, , if the -term is positive, its transverse axis lies on the -axis and its branches open up and down. The standard form of this equation is . The hyperbola has vertices and -intercepts at and , and it has no -intercepts.
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