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How many tangents can be drawn on a parabola?

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How many tangents can be drawn on a parabola?

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Since there are infinite points on a parabola, there are an infinite amount of tangent lines that can be drawn from it. Remember, a tangent lines is just a line that touches one and only one point on a curve. The entire line has the exact same slope as that point on the curve, in your case the parabola.

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Given any parabola, and any point, A, outside of the parabola, you can always find exactly two tangents to the parabola, through A. Depending on the points there may be tangents. In general it is specified by points.

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There an infinite number of tangents that can be drawn on a parabola.

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