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Show that equation `x^2+y^2-2ay-8=0` represents, for different values of 'a, asystem of circles"passing through two fixed points A, B on the X-axis, and find the equation ofthat circle of the system the tangents to which at AB meet on the line `x+ 2y + 5 = 0`.

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