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I don't know how to do this question, and I sometimes have trouble with similar questions to this. If someone could do this question and maybe give me a few tips on how to do these questions, the help would be greatly appreciated.
 

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It's really important to know your trig identities when working with questions like these.

Using the identity ,





Now the RHS is . We're clearly not going to get a fraction like that by doing normal algebraic manipulation on what we currently have, so let's "brute force" the solution by going straight to the RHS.





So,

 
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HI can someone help me with this locus question (its preliminary btw). Here is the question;
The focal chord that cuts the parabola x^2 = -6y at (6, -6) cuts the parabola again at X. Find the coordinates of X.

Thanks, the answer is X ( -3/2, -3/8)
 

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