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What is the equation of the parabola?

What is the equation of the parabola?-example-1
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It Given the focus (h,k) and the directrix y=mx+b, the equation for a parabola is (y - mx - b)^2 / (m^2 +1) = (x - h)^2 + (y - k)^2.
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