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Types of Conic Sections
Types of conic sections
This figure shows how the conic sections, in light blue, are the result of a plane intersecting a cone. Image 1 shows a parabola, image 2 shows a circle (bottom) and an ellipse (top), and image 3 shows a hyperbola.
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