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The distance from the green point on the parabola to the parabola's focus is 9 What is the distance from the green point to the directrix?
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The distance from the green point on the parabola to the parabolas focus is 6 What is the distance from the green point to the directrix?
6
Which best describes a parabola?
Given a straight line (a directrix) and a point (the focus) which is not on that line, a parabola is locus of all points whose distance form the directrix is the same as its distance from the focus.
The directrix and focus are the same distance from a given point on the parabola?
true
Are the directrix and focus different distances from a given point on a parabola?
One definition of a parabola is the set of points that are equidistant from a given line called the directrix and a given point called the focus. So, no. The distances are not different, they are the same. The distance between the directrix and a given point on the parabola will always be the same as the distance between that same point on the parabola and the focus. Any point where those two distances are equal would be on the parabola somewhere and all the points where those two distances are different would not be on the parabola. Note that the distance from a point to the directrix is definied as the perpendicular distance (also known as the minimum distance).
What is the midpoint of the parabola between the focus and the directrix?
It is the apex of the parabola.
The distance from the green point on the parabola to the parabolas focus is 6 What is the distance from the green point to the directrix?
6
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
Which best describes a parabola?
Given a straight line (a directrix) and a point (the focus) which is not on that line, a parabola is locus of all points whose distance form the directrix is the same as its distance from the focus.
The distance from the green point on the parabola to the parabola's focus is 10 What is the distance from the green point to the directrix?
10
The distance from the green point on the parabola to the parabola's focus is 6 What is the distance from the green point to the directrix?
answer is 6
The distance from the green point on the parabola to the parabola's focus is 9. whats is the distance from the green point to the directrix?
It is 9.
The directrix and focus are the same distance from a given point on the parabola?
true
The distance from the green point on the parabola to the parabola's focus is 12 What is the distance from the green point to the directrix?
12 from lil J smokey
Are the directrix and focus different distances from a given point on a parabola?
One definition of a parabola is the set of points that are equidistant from a given line called the directrix and a given point called the focus. So, no. The distances are not different, they are the same. The distance between the directrix and a given point on the parabola will always be the same as the distance between that same point on the parabola and the focus. Any point where those two distances are equal would be on the parabola somewhere and all the points where those two distances are different would not be on the parabola. Note that the distance from a point to the directrix is definied as the perpendicular distance (also known as the minimum distance).
What is the midpoint of the parabola between the focus and the directrix?
It is the apex of the parabola.
How many foci does a parabola have?
A parabola has a single focus point. There is a line running perpendicular to the axis of symmetry of the parabola called the directrix. A line running from the focus to a point on the parabola is going to have the same distance as from the point on the parabola to the closest point of the directrix. In theory you could look at a parabola as being an ellipse with one focus at infinity, but that really doesn't help any. ■
What object using a directrix and a focus?
parabola
