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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Is this a hyperbola?

OpenStudy (helder_edwin):

what is?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

OpenStudy (anonymous):

sorry I'm slow :P I'm not sure about the graph because the bottom curves up.

OpenStudy (helder_edwin):

it looks like two parabolas.

OpenStudy (helder_edwin):

one very wide and another (upwards) very narrow

OpenStudy (anonymous):

My Assignment is to identify the conic sections. It doesn't say it can't be two things... this is the equation BTW. (x^2/28)-y=0

OpenStudy (helder_edwin):

not "upwards" rather at the top

OpenStudy (helder_edwin):

no y^2 ??

OpenStudy (anonymous):

nope. just y.

OpenStudy (helder_edwin):

well one variable squared is a parabola. two squared variables either a circumference or an ellipse or an hyperbola.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

O.k! I never really noticed the differences in the equations till I graph them... So since there is is only one squared variable it's a parabola and since there's two lines on the graph there is two parabolas?

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