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Find the focus and directrix of the parabola y^2=6x
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y^2=6x
So The equation y^2=6x has the form y^2 = 4px, with 4px = 6, so p = 2/3.. The parabola (p) is horizontal, with FOCUS: ( 2/3, 0), directrix x = -2/3.
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