Vocabulary
Every quadratic equation has a U-shaped graph called this.
What is parabola?
x2 - 3x + 1 = 0
What is standard form?
What are the solutions? y=(x-2)(x+6)
What is (2,0) and (-6,0)?
Name the vertex y= (x-3)2 +4
What is (3,4)?
What was founded first, Netflix or Google?
Netflix.
The highest or lowest point on a parabola.
What is the vertex?
y = 2 (x - 5)² + 6
What is Vertex form?
Name the x-intercepts y=(x)(x-2)
What is (0,0) and (2,0)?
y= (x+1)2 - 8
What is (-1, -8)?
In which state is it against the law to tie a giraffe to a street lamp or telephone pole?
Atlanta, Georgia.
When a quadratic equation is written in this form y = ax2 +bx + c
What is the standard form?
5x2 + x - 1 = 0
What is standard form?
Name the x-intercepts. y=x2 - 4
What is (-2,0) and (2,0)?
What is the vertex for this equation? y=(x+4)(x-4)
What is (0,-16)?
True or false: 3 out of 4 presidents depicted in Mount Rushmore are in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
All BUT JEFFERSON!
Washington
Lincoln
Rosevelt
This is the number before the x2 that determines whether a parabola opens up or down.
What is the leading coefficient?
y = 2(x-1)(x+7)
What is intercept form?
Name the x-intercepts y=x2 - x - 2
What is (-1,0) and (2,0)?
Name the vertex x2 - 4x - 5 = 0
What is (2,-9)?
In which Midwest city is it illegal to sing the alphabet out on the street at night?
Topeka, Kansas
The line that runs through the vertex and divides the parabola in half.
What is axis of symmetry?
y = - 1/2 (x + 7) - 4
What is vertex form?
Name the x-intercepts. y= (x-1)2 + 1
What is None? (the solutions are complex)
Name the vertex 2x2 + 4x - 6 = 0?
What is (-1,-8)?
Which animal can hold its breath longer than a dolphin?
Sloth!