JEE Main 2014 — Parabola Question with Solution
JEE Main 2014 (06 Apr)
Question
The locus of the foot of perpendicular drawn from the centre of the ellipse on any tangent to it is
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A
Step-by-step explanation
The centre of the given ellipse
The general equation of a tangent to the ellipse
is
Given ellipse :
A perpendicular line from the centre is
Eliminating , from and
Squaring both sides,
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