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Mathematics, 09.07.2021 08:00 oliviahopebigel

A lighthouse is on an island 8 miles from a long straight shoreline. When a boat is directly between the lighthouse and the shoreline it is 2 miles from the lighthouse and 6 miles from the shore. As it sails away from the shore and the lighthouse, it continues so that the difference in distances between boat and lighthouse and between boat and shore is always 4 miles Is it a parabola or a hyperbola

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