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What is the equation of the directrix of the parabola?
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The answer depends on the form in which the equation of the parabola is given. For y^2 = 4ax the directrix is x = -2a.
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What is the standard form of the equation of the parabola with vertex 00 and directrix y4?
Assuming the vertex is 0,0 and the directrix is y=4 x^2=0
What does 4 stands for in equation of parabola square of square of y equals 4ax?
A parabola with an equation, y2 = 4ax has its vertex at the origin and opens to the right. It's not just the '4' that is important, it's '4a' that matters. This type of parabola has a directrix at x = -a, and a focus at (a, 0). By writing the equation as it is, the position of the directrix and focus are readily identifiable. For example, y2 = 2.4x doesn't say a great deal. Re-writing the equation of the parabola as y2 = 4*(0.6)x tells us immediately that the directrix is at x = -0.6 and the focus is at (0.6, 0)
What object using a directrix and a focus?
parabola
What geometric shape has focus and directrix?
A parabola.
Why is every point on a parabola equidistant to the focus and the directrix?
Because that is how a parabola is defined!
What is the line that divides a parabola?
It is the axis. NOT the directrix which does not even touch the parabola.
What is the standard form of the equation of the parabola with vertex 00 and directrix y4?
Assuming the vertex is 0,0 and the directrix is y=4 x^2=0
What is the standard equation of a parabola that opens up or down and whose vertex is at the origin?
focus , directrix
What does 4 stands for in equation of parabola square of square of y equals 4ax?
A parabola with an equation, y2 = 4ax has its vertex at the origin and opens to the right. It's not just the '4' that is important, it's '4a' that matters. This type of parabola has a directrix at x = -a, and a focus at (a, 0). By writing the equation as it is, the position of the directrix and focus are readily identifiable. For example, y2 = 2.4x doesn't say a great deal. Re-writing the equation of the parabola as y2 = 4*(0.6)x tells us immediately that the directrix is at x = -0.6 and the focus is at (0.6, 0)
The is the extreme point of a parabola and is located halfway between the focus and directrix?
The vertex -- the closest point on the parabola to the directrix.
What is the midpoint of the parabola between the focus and the directrix?
It is the apex of the parabola.
What is the directrix of a parabola?
"From the geometric point of view, the given point is the focus of the parabola and the given line is its directrix. It can be shown that the line of symmetry of the parabola is the line perpendicular to the directrix through the focus. The vertex of the parabola is the point of the parabola that is closest to both the focus and directrix."-http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Algorithms/MyAlgorithms/parabola.htm"A line perpendicular to the axis of symmetry used in the definition of a parabola. A parabola is defined as follows: For a given point, called the focus, and a given line not through the focus, called the directrix, a parabola is the locus, or set of points, such that the distance to the focus equals the distance to the directrix."-http://www.mathwords.com/d/directrix_parabola.htm
A parabola that opens upward?
Is a parabola whose directrix is below its vertex.
A line that helps define a parabola?
directrix
What object using a directrix and a focus?
parabola
What geometric shape has focus and directrix?
A parabola.
Why is every point on a parabola equidistant to the focus and the directrix?
Because that is how a parabola is defined!
