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Chapter 7: Hooked on Conics

In this chapter, we study the Conic Sections - literally `sections of a cone'. Imagine a double-napped cone as seen below being `sliced' by a plane.

Adapted from Precalculus, 3rd corrected edition, by Carl Stitz and Jeff Zeager (stitz-zeager.com), licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Changes were made: reformatted as an accessible XYZ web edition. License: CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0.

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