Show that the parabola y = x 2 consists of all points P such that d 1

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Show that the parabola y = x2 consists of all points P such that d1 = d2, where d1 is the distance from P to (0, 1/4) and d2 is the distance from P to the line y = −1/4 (Figure 15).

-4 |-|- y d y=x P=(x, x) d X

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Calculus

ISBN: 9781319055844

4th Edition

Authors: Jon Rogawski, Colin Adams, Robert Franzosa

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