JEE Main 2012 — Parabola Question with Solution
JEE Main 2012 (07 May Online)
Question
Statement 1: is always a tangent to the parabola, for all non-zero values of .
Statement 2: Every tangent to the parabola, will meet its axis at a point whose abscissa is non-negative.
Choose an option
Show full solutionCorrect option: D
Correct answer
DStatement 1 is true, Statement 2 is true, Statement 2 is not a correct explanation of Statement 1.
Step-by-step explanation
Both the given statements are true. Statement is not the correct explanation for statement .
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