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Grade upto college level Analytical Geometry

if a parabola whose length of latus rectum is 4a touches the coordinate axes the find the locus of its focus

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12 Years agoGrade upto college level
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12 Years ago
please check the attached file
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12 Years ago
sir there is no attached file....
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12 Years ago
Hi Pranjal, There is slight technical issue. Please post these questions again in analytical Geometry. We will upload the answers for the same. askIITians Faculty
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12 Years ago

Let (h,k) be the focus of the hyperbola, since it touches the axis tangent at the vertex should be

 and the equation of its directrix should be  and the perpendicular distance

from direcrtrix to tangent at vertex is equal to a.

therefore

locus of focus is

 

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Sunil Raikwar,

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