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What is the name of the point that you use to define a parabola?
it's called the focus
What is the lowest or highest point in a parabola?
A vertex is the highest or lowest point in a parabola.
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?
9
What best describes a single fixed point that is the same distance from the parabola as the directrix is from the parabola?
Locus
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 name of the point you use to define a parabola?
All of the points on a parabola define a parabola. However, the vertex is the point in which the y value is only used for one point on the parabola.
What is the name of the point that use to define a parabola?
i think its the vertex.
What is the name of a point that you used to define a parabola?
it's called the focus
What is the name of the point that you use to define a parabola?
it's called the focus
What is a point that helps define an ellipse parabola and hyperbola?
focus
What is the name of the line that you use to define a parabola?
directrix
What is the name of the line that is used to define a parabola?
directrix
What is the name of a line that you use to define a parabola?
It is called the directrix.
What is another name for a turning point in a parabola?
Vertex
Parabola is the point at which the parabola is at its lowest or highest point?
A parabola is NOT a point, it is the whole curve.
A line that helps define a parabola?
directrix
What is the lowest or highest point in a parabola?
A vertex is the highest or lowest point in a parabola.
