Tangent to hyperbola proof (1 Viewer)

[ClassicFine]

I have been wrestling with this for about 45 mins now, I don't think it's that hard but I can't quite get it.

Prove that the line with equation

is a tangent to the hyperbola with equation

if, and only if

Simple enough, right? But I ended up with two A4 sides of working (which I won't repeat here) and a complete mess. My approach was to prove that if it was a tangent then when I solved the two equations simultaneously the discriminant of the resulting quadratic would be equal to zero (since the tangent only touches once), I was hoping to rearrange this to get the required relationship between a,m,b and c. This didn't work as expected.

I also have no idea how to prove the converse

Any help would be great! Thanks!

 

[Carrotsticks]

Instead of proving A=B then B=A, you can use a series of steps that are 'iff'-type steps if that makes sense.

So to prove an iff question, you can do this:

A <=> XXX <=> YYY <=> ZZZ <=> B

 

[Alkenes]

I did that yday:d