JEE Main 2024 — Parabola Question with Solution
From: JEE Main 2024 (Online) 9th April Evening Shift
Question
Let and be three points on the parabola and let the line segment meet the line through parallel to the -axis at the point . Let and respectively be the feet of the perpendiculars from and on . Then is equal to __________.
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Correct answer
36
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Equation of

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