The locus of the foot of the perpendicular drawn from any focus to a variable tangent of the hyperbola $4x^2 - 9y^2 - 8x - 18y = 41$ is:

The eccentricity $e$ of a hyperbola can never be equal to which of the following values?

Let the lengths of the transverse and conjugate axes of a hyperbola in standard form be $2a$ and $2b$,respectively,and one focus and the corresponding directrix of this hyperbola be $(-5, 0)$ and $5x + 9 = 0$,respectively. If the product of the focal distances of a point $(\alpha, 2\sqrt{5})$ on the hyperbola is $p$,then $4p$ is equal to . . . . . . .

The distance between the foci of a hyperbola is $16$ and its eccentricity is $\sqrt{2}$. Its equation is

The magnitude of the gradient of the tangent at an extremity of the latera recta of the hyperbola $\frac{x^2}{a^2} - \frac{y^2}{b^2} = 1$ is equal to (where $e$ is the eccentricity of the hyperbola).

The locus of a point $P(\alpha, \beta)$ moving under the condition that the line $y = \alpha x + \beta$ is a tangent to the hyperbola $\frac{x^2}{a^2} - \frac{y^2}{b^2} = 1$ is