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Given information

Given ellipse and the point .

The objective is to find the equations of both the tangent lines to the ellipse.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Given curve,

Differentiate both sides with respect to .

  

Suppose the tangent line touches the ellipse at then equation of the tangent is,

  

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