PRECAL TERMS

Question 1

can be defined as a set of all points (ordered pair) in a rectangular coordinate plane.

Answer 1

Circle

Question 2

What is the fixed point of a circle

Answer 2

center

Question 3

what is known the fixed distance from a center to any point along the graph

Answer 3

radius

Question 4

What is given in a parabola

Answer 4

focus and directrix

Question 5

what is the fixed point in the parabola

Answer 5

focus

Question 6

what is the fixed line in the parabola

Answer 6

directrix

Question 7

set of all points p(x,y) in the rectangular coordinate plane.

Answer 7

parabola

Question 8

distanc from F to P IS ____________ to the distance from line D to point P (x,y)

Answer 8

perpendicular

Question 9

equation of a line that divides the figure into two equal parts where one is the mirror image of the other.

Answer 9

line of symmetry

Question 10

line passing through the foci of the conic and is parallel to the directrix of the conic

Answer 10

latus rectum

Question 11

point used to construct a conic section

Answer 11

focus

Question 12

set of all points P(x,y) such as that the distance F, P is added to the distance F2 P is constant

Answer 12

ellipse

Question 13

fixed point of the ellipse

Answer 13

Foci

Question 14

2 dimensional circle whose points in the plane are equidistant from a center point

Answer 14

Circle

Question 15

constant distance between a point and a circle and the center

Answer 15

radius

Question 16

parts of a conic section

Answer 16

generator, vertex, vertical axis

Question 17

Plane cuts in _______ to the generator

Answer 17

parallel

Question 18

set of all points in a plane equidistant from both a fixed point called the focus and a fixed line called directrix

Answer 18

parabola

Question 19

plane cuts at ______ to the generator

Answer 19

an angle

Question 20

set of all points in a place, sum of whose distances from two fixed points, foci, is constant

Answer 20

ellipse