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An architect for a golf course wants to plan a sand trap that passes between a tree and a cart path. Using these as the focus and directrix, how can the architect plan a parabolic sand trap that will be equidistant from the tree and the cart path at all times? Describe your method in full sentences.

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An architect for a golf course wants to plan a sand trap that passes between a tree and a cart path. Using these as the focus and directrix, how can the architect plan a parabolic sand trap that will be equidistant from the tree and the cart path at all times? Describe your method in full sentences.

campbell_st · Answer

draw line throught the tree that is perpendicular to the cart path. this will be the line of symmetry 

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then each edge of the bunker can be designed so it is equi-distance from the focus and directrix..( the definition of a parabola.... a locus of points that are....etc)

campbell_st · Answer

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