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In both an ellipse and hyperbola , prove that the focal distance of any point and the perpendicular from the centre upon the tangent at it meet on a circle whose centre is the focus and whose radius is the semi-transverse axis.

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`(x+ae)^(2)+y^(2)=a^(2)`
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