Question 1

What is the path it takes when you throw a ball?

Accepted Answer

parabola

Answer

hyperbola

Answer

ellipse

Answer

circle

Question 2

Which of the following conic section is an example of orbit taken by each planet around the sun?

Accepted Answer

ellipse

Answer

parabola

Answer

circle

Answer

hyperbola

Question 3

What conic section has been used for the design of certain telescopes and navigation system?

Accepted Answer

hyperbola

Answer

circle

Answer

parabola

Answer

ellipse

Question 4

What do you form when there are other ways for a plane and the cones to intersect?

Accepted Answer

degenerate conics

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polygons

Answer

orbit

Answer

asteroids

Question 5

Which of the following statement is TRUE about conic sections?

Accepted Answer

Circle is formed by cutting a cone straight across, perpendicular to the cone’s line of symmetry.

Answer

Linear equations represent a conic section.

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Parabola is formed by cutting through two end-to-end conics.

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Ellipse is formed by intersecting two nappes of the cone.

Question 6

Which of the following conic sections is an example of cable wires hanging on the bridge?

Accepted Answer

parabola

Answer

circle

Answer

hyperbola

Answer

ellipse

Question 7

What conic section has been used for the design of cooling towers?

Accepted Answer

hyperbola

Answer

circle

Answer

ellipse

Answer

parabola

Question 8

What do you form when the tilted plane intersects only one cone to form a bounded curve?

Accepted Answer

ellipse

Answer

parabola

Answer

circle

Answer

hyperbola

Question 9

Which of the following conic sections is an example of bicycle chain?

Accepted Answer

ellipse

Answer

circle

Answer

parabola

Answer

hyperbola

Question 10

Which of the following is NOT an example of degenerate conics?

Accepted Answer

perpendicular lines

Answer

intersecting lines

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line

Answer

point

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