parent 34. ASTRONOMY The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia has a main reflector whose cross section is a portion of a "parent" parabola. A diagram of the reflector's cross section and the parent parabola is shown. Write an equation that models the parent parabola if its vertex is at (0, 0). What is the distance from the vertex to the focus? parabola focus (-104,45) reflector

parent 34. ASTRONOMY The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia has a main reflector whose cross section is a portion of a "parent" parabola. A diagram of the reflector's cross section and the parent parabola is shown. Write an equation that models the parent parabola if its vertex is at (0, 0). What is the distance from the vertex to the focus? parabola focus (-104,45) reflector

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