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What are two real life examples of conics?
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What are two real life examples of conics?

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A satellite dish is a paraboloid ( 3D parabola) - this is a solid generated by rotating a parabola about its axis of symmetry
The orbit of our earth around the sun is an ellipse.
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The Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas and theTycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen
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