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A radio telescope has a parabolic surface as shown below. A parabola opening up with vertex at the origin is graphed on the coordinate plane. The height of the parabola from top to bottom is 1 meter and its width from left to right is 12 meters. If the telescope is 1 m deep and 12 m wide, how far is the focus from the vertex?

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