Solution

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From , we have . Substitution into the original relation gives , so
These are real parabola branches, with either sign of allowed when the branch is real. For , differentiating gives and verifies both the relation and the slope. Use graph intervals with and , so the slope is finite and . The separate constant-slope case gives , also represented by the degenerate choice . Squaring has not imposed a sign on , so both real graph branches must be included.

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