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An engineer designs a satellite dish with a parabolic cross section. The dish is 14 ft wide at the opening, and the focus is
placed 8 ft from the vertex.
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a) Position a coordinate system with the origin at the vertex and the x-axis on the parabola's axis of symmetry and find
an equation of the parabola.
b) Find the depth of the satellite dish at the vertex.
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a) The equation for the parabola is
(Type an equation. Simplify your answer.)
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