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What is Parabola?

What is the transformation of parabolas?

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What is Parabola:

a symmetrical open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side. The path of a projectile under the influence of gravity ideally follows a curve of this shape.

What is the transformation of parabolas?

The function y=x2+b has a graph which simply looks like the standard parabola with the vertex shifted b units along the y-axis. Thus the vertex is located at (0,b). If b is positive, then the parabola moves upwards and, if b is negative, it moves downwards. Similarly, we can translate the parabola horizontally

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