Vocabulary/Terms
Name that Form
Crossing the Line
Mountain High, or Valley Low
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100

This is the y-intercept in standard form.

What is the c-value?

100

Name the form AND one piece of information it gives you:

f(x) = x2 - 3x + 1

What is standard form?


y-int = 1

a = 1 (opens up, RoC = 1)

100

Find the x-intercepts. 

f(x) = 2(x - 2)(x + 6)

What is (2,0) and (-6,0)?

100

Find the vertex 

y = (x - 3)2 + 4

What is (3,4)?

100

Graph the equation. Must include vertex and at least two other points. 

y=(x - 5)(x - 1)

What is graph on board?

200
The highest or lowest point on a parabola.
What is the vertex?
200

Name the form AND one piece of information it gives you:

y = 2 (x - 5)² + 6

What is Vertex form?

vertex: (5, 6)

a = 2 (open up, RoC = 2, steeper)

200

Find the x-intercepts 

y = (x)(x - 2)

What is (0,0) and (2,0)?

200

Find the vertex

y = (x + 1)2 - 8

What is (-1, -8)?

200

Graph the equation. Must include vertex and at least two other points. 

y = (x+2)(x-2)

What is graph on board?

300

When a quadratic equation is written in this form 

y = ax2 +bx + c

What is the standard form?

300

Name the form AND one piece of information it gives you:

f(x) = -5x2 + x - 1

What is standard form?

y-int = -1

a = -5 (steeper, opens down, RoC = 5)

300

Find the x-intercepts. 

y = x2 - 4

What is (-2,0) and (2,0)?

300

Find the vertex

y=(x+4)(x-4)

What is (0,-16)?

300

Graph the equation. Must include vertex and at least two other points. 

y=(x+1)2 - 2

What is graph on board

400

This is the number before the x2 that determines the vertical stretch factor.

What is the a-value?

400

Name the form AND one piece of information it gives you:

y = 2(x - 1)(x + 7)

What is factored form?

x-ints: 1, -7

a = 2 (steeper, opens up, RoC = 2)

400

Find the x-intercepts 

y = x2 - x - 2

What is (-1,0) and (2,0)?

400

Find the vertex 

f(x) = x2 - 4x - 5

What is (2,-9)?

400

Graph the equation. Must include vertex and at least two other points.

y=(x - 4)2 + 3

What is graph on board.

500

The line that runs through the vertex and divides the parabola in half.

What is axis of symmetry?

500

Name the form AND one piece of information it gives you:

y = - 1/2 (x + 7) - 4

What is vertex form?

vertex: (-7, -4)

a = -1/2 (opens down, flatter/wider, RoC = 1/2

500

Find the x-intercepts. 

f(x) = (x - 1)2 + 1

What is None?

500

Find the vertex 

f(x) = 2x2 + 4x - 6

What is (-1,-8)?

500

Graph the function. Must include vertex, and at least two other points. 

f(x) = -x2 - 6x - 9

What is graph on board

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