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The locus of the mid-points of those chords of the parabola 
which are parallel to the line 
is the straight line 
(where 
and 
). Then, 
is equal to
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29
(29) If 
is the mid-point of a chord of the parabola 
, then the equation of the chord is given by
Its slope is 
.
Now, 
slope of 
is 
Locus of the mid-points is 
.
On comparing with 
, we get
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