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Eliminate the parameter of:

x = 4 cos t, y = 4 sin t

User Everin
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Recall the Pythagorean identity:


\cos^2x+\sin^2x=1

so


x^2+y^2=(4\cos t)^2+(4\sin t)^2=16(\cos^2t+\sin^2t)=16

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