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As shown in picture, a car is travelling along a highway shaped like a parabola, with its vertex at the origin.

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Step 1.
The vertex of the parabola is and the y-axis is its axis. It indicates that the parabola is in the upper half plane, and therefore the parabola's equation will be with . On the parabola, the point is located.
 
 
As a result, the parabola equation is.
 
Assume that the car's headlight illuminates the statue at the coordinate point .
 

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