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The tangents drawn from the ends of latus rectum of 
meets at 
. Find 
.
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The co-ordinates of ends of 
are 
and 
. In the given parabola, these points are 
and 
the equation of tangents are 
and 
and 
. The intersection of these tangents are 
which is the equation of directrix.
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