Parabolas

Parabolas

1. What is a parabola?

   • A parabola is a shape of a curve, where any point is at an equal distance from, a fixed point and a fixed straight line.

2. What is a vertex?

   • Where the parabola makes it sharpest turn.

3. What is the axis of symmetry?

   • It is the center of the parabola, it goes through the focus, at right angles to the directrix

4. What is the equation of a parabola?

   • y = x (squared)

5. Parabola in a graph

6. Parabola in real life

7. Andrés Rebollar 3ºI

8. Reference: Parabola. (n.d). In Math is Fun. Retrieved from https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/parabola.html

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