Hocus, Pocus, LOCUS!

Geometry Level 3

If the locus of the focus of the variable parabola, which always touches the curve C 2 C_2 : x 2 = y x^2=-y at ( 0 , 0 ) (0,0) , is C 1 C_1 : x 2 + y 2 = 2 a y 4 x^2 + y^2 = 2ay^4 .

If C 1 C_1 and C 2 C_2 have same length of Latus Rectum and they have no other intersection point, find a a .

Credits: My Mathematics Teacher.


The answer is 8.

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