Question

What is the difference between identifying a parabola, ellipse, hyperbola, and a circle?

Answer 1

mathematically
Circle: `(x-h)^2+(y-k)^2=r^2`
parabola: `(x-h)^2=(y-k)`
ellipse: `(x-h)^2/a^2+(y-k)^2/b`
hyperbola: `(x-h)^2/a^2-(y-k)^2/b^2=1`

Grapically
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