Equilateral triangles of sides , are placed end-to-end along a straight line.
Show that the vertices which do not lie on the line all lie on a parabola and that their focal radii are all integers.
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That's so beautiful! Thanks for sharing :)
Hi Megh
Is the equation of the parabola : y2=3(x+41) ?
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Ok,then?
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Ok, I'll try posting a proof later on :)