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Conic Sections · Hard problem

Two radio towers sit on a straight shoreline at (−10,0)(-10, 0) and (10,0)(10, 0) (miles). A ship's receiver shows that the difference between its distances to the two towers is always 1212 miles, so the ship travels along one branch of a hyperbola with these towers as foci. Find the slope of the (positive-slope) asymptote of this hyperbola.