The uploaded worksheet contains a copy of figure of a pencil from a geometry book, followed by a failed attempt to code Maple to produce the same figure.

The book containing the figure gives no indication of how to code for the figure. Can the figure be produced in Maple?

Respondents will have to establish their own path to DirectSearch.

Pencil.mw

Please answer the questions posed in the body of the uploaded worksheet.

The worksheet employs the command DirectSearch[SolveEquations]. Responders must establish their own connection to the DirectSearch package.

Invert_Torus.mw

The uploaded worksheet plots conics in polar coordinates.

A circle, parabola and hyperbola all plot correctly, but the plot command for the ellipse displays a shifted circle. What's wrong?

Conic_quandry.mw

In the worksheet below, variable x can be returned to type name after being assigned a value , but concatenated variable name A||1 cannot. Is there a way to return a concatenated variable to type name after it has been assigned a value, so it can be re-used as an unknown in solve commands?

Concatenate_Question.mw

CubicRoots.mw