Functions
The name for the lowest point on a function
What is a minimum?
What is 8?
A quadratic function usually has this operation in it
What is squaring?
The y-intercept of y = 2x - 5
What is -5?
Mr. Pogue can tell you the day of the week of any date, including June 18, which falls on this day.
What is Wednesday?
If f(x) = 2x + 5, this is f(-1)
What is 3?
The y-intercept of y = 4(10)x
What is 4?
In a quadratic equation that represents projectile motion, the second number (the number before x) represents this
What is the speed at which the projectile starts?
The y-intercept of y = x2 + 5x + 10
What is 10?
The two buttons you press to type "square root" into the calculator
What are 2nd and x2?
If f(x) = 2x + 5, this is the solution to f(x) = 7
What is 1?
What is 3/4?
If a ball is thrown into the air, the second x-intercept represents when this happens
When does the ball hit the ground?
The x-intercepts of y = (x - 1)(x + 3)
What are 1 and -3?
Mr. Pogue's age
What is 27?
The definition of the domain of a function
The set of possible inputs
The percentage decrease in the equation y = 4000(0.87)x
The name of the shape a quadratic function makes
What is a parabola?
The lowest point of a quadratic (or an absolute value function)
What is the vertex?
Mr. Pogue "speaks" 5 languages. Name 4
What are English, Spanish, Italian, French, Esperanto?
The inverse of y = 2x - 3
What is x = (y + 3)/2?
The expression 3((1.01)12)5 is equivalent to this expression that also represents 5 years of monthly growth.
3(1.01)60
The acceleration of gravity on Earth, in feet per second
What is 16?
The y-intercept of y = (x + 2)(x + 3)
What is 6?
Name someone who was on the Titan submarine at any point.
Who is David Pogue/