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Grade 12th passAnalytical Geometry

If focus lies on the diretrix, then What its represent (parabola, ellipse, hyperbola)

Profile image of G Venkateswara Reddy
9 Years agoGrade 12th pass
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Profile image of Saurabh Koranglekar
6 Years ago
Dear student

A parabola is set of all points in a plane whicharean equal distance away from a given point and given line. The point is called thefocusof the parabola and the line is called thedirectrix. Thefocus lieson the axis of symmetry of the parabola

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