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If from the vertex of a parabola `y^2=4x` a pair of chords be drawn at right angles to one another andwith these chords as adjacent sides a rectangle be made, then the locus of the further end of the rectangle is

A

an equal parabola

B

a parabola with focus at (8a,0)

C

a parabola with directrix as x-7a=0

D

not a parabola

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