Answer to Question #224026 in Analytic Geometry for Bless

Question #224026

The normal at a point P of an ellipse, of which S is a focus, meets the ellipse again in Q, and the normal at Q meets the major axis in L. A line through L parallel to the line P Q meets SP in R. Prove that |SQ| = |SR|.

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