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Hi Shawna, The parabola is the set of all points in the plane for which the y-coordinate is the square of the x-coordinate, that is \{(x ,x^2)| x \in \mathbb{R}\}. Hence the parabola can be parameterized by (x, x^2). Penny | ||||||||||||
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