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A pair of tangents are drawn to the parabola `y^2=4a x` which are equally inclined to a straight line `y=m x+c ,` whose inclination to the axis is `alpha` . Prove that the locus of their point of intersection is the straight line `y=(x-a)tan2alphadot`

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