Question icon
Grade 12th passAnalytical Geometry

can we fiind a coomon tangent to parabola and huyperbola by dy/dx for both curve then equatng them?

Profile image of Madhuri Agarwal
11 Years agoGrade 12th pass
Answers icon

1 Answer

Profile image of Akshay
11 Years ago
dy/dx will give you the slope of the tangent. There may be a case when there are two parallel lines/tangents which have same dy/dx, but it will not be a common tangent