A
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degenerate
central
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conic can be a point, a line, a pair of lines, or no graph at all.
The coefficients and determine the
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type
position
of the conic.
The graph is a
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circle
ellipse
hyperbola
parabola
if one of or is zero.
If (and ), the graph is a
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circle
ellipse
hyperbola
parabola
.