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Based on the lengths of the segments in the hyperbola below, how long is the dashed line? Show your work.

Based on the lengths of the segments in the hyperbola below, how long is the dashed-example-1
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Check the picture below.

keeping in mind that the difference of the distances of d1 and d2 is always a consistent constant value, as you can see in the left-hand-side of the picture, if we keep on sliding on the hyperbolic line shrinking d2 from being slanted to be horizontal, once we put d1 and d2 on a horizontal line, as you see on the right-hand-side, if we subtract the pink line from the orange line, what's leftover is, yeap, you guessed it.

Based on the lengths of the segments in the hyperbola below, how long is the dashed-example-1
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