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The auxiliary circle of a family of ellipses passes through the origin and makes intercepts of 8 units and 6 units on the x and y-axis, respectively. If the eccentricity of all such ellipses is `1/2,` then find the locus of the focus.

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`radius = sqrt(4^2 + 3^2) = 5 `
let focus be `(h,k)`
let distanc of focus from centre = al
al = `sqrt((h-4)^2+(k-3)^2)`
a = radius of ac = 5
`(5/2) = sqrt((h-4)^2 + (k-3)^2)`
`(5/2)^2 = (h-4)^2 + (k-3)^2`
`(x-4)^2 + (y-3)^2 = 25/4`
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