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Given information

We are given the parabola  which is parallel to the line .

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.
Required line has a form  .
It is normal line to the parabola
 
therefore use rule for slope of normal lines.
 
where represents slope of function and represents slope of required line.
Find a slope for . That is derivative of this function.
 
The slope of function is .
Rewrite function
 
as
 
Slope of this function is  .
As the required line is parallel to the line  , they have equal slopes. Therefore  .
Use
 
to find coordinate where required line is normal to the line of parabola.
 

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