Find maximum value of a function over a given region

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The prompt is to find the maximum value of the function $f(x) = 10 - 5x^2 -9y^2$ over the region $4x^2+y^2 \leq 4$.

This is what I tried doing, The method of Lagrange multipliers says that extrema of $f(x, y)$ subject to the constraint are found among the solutions of $\nabla(x, y) = \lambda\nabla g(x, y)$, where

This will only give us 2 values of $\lambda$ ,$\frac{5}{4}$ and $-9$ but x and y are still 0

I'm lost now what to do with $\lambda$ since my points are (0, 0) how to proceed with this problem?