How to solve the equations $ax^{2}+bxy+cy^{2}=bx^{2}+cxy+ay^{2}=d$?

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This is from practice questions on quadratic equations in my book. I solved it in the following way:

Divide the equations by $x^2$

$\Longrightarrow c\left(\frac{y}{x}\right)^{2}+b\left(\frac{y}{x}\right)+a\ =\frac{d}{x} ...(i)$

$\Longrightarrow a\left(\frac{y}{x}\right)^{2}+c\left(\frac{y}{x}\right)+b\ =\frac{d}{x}...(ii)$

Subtract (ii) from (i) and by solving the resulting quadratic(by replacing $\frac{y}{x}$ with $t$) I get:

$$\frac{y}{x}=\frac{\left(c-b\right)\pm\sqrt{\left(b-c\right)^{2}-4\left(a-b\right)\left(c-a\right)}}{2(c-a)}$$

At this point I looked at the answer provided which was:

$x^2=y^2=d/a+b+c$ ;

$x/(c-a)=y/(a-b)=K$ where $K^2a(a^{2}+b^{2}+c^{2}-ab-bc-ca)=d$

My question is where does this solution come from and if my approach is correct how to go further?

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Hint

You properly wrote$$t=\frac{y}{x}=\frac{\left(c-b\right)\pm\sqrt{\left(b-c\right)^{2}-4\left(a-b\right)\left(c-a\right)}}{2(c-a)}$$ but you did not notice that $$\left(b-c\right)^{2}-4\left(a-b\right)\left(c-a\right)=(b+c-2 a)^2$$ which makes $t=1$ and $t=\frac{b-a}{a-c}$.

This should make the problem much more simple now.