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What is the length of shortest path that begins at the point (-1,1) , touches the x axis and then ends at point on the parabola $(x-y)^2 =2(x+y-4)$ .
I put $x=x-y$
$y=x+y-4$
then the starting point would be $(-4,-2)$ .
can I proceed by this methos of changing the coordinates
After that I g...