Linear Functions
rise over run
What is the slope?
The u-shape of a quadratic graph
What is a parabola?
the highest exponent in a polynomial
What is the degree of a polynomial?
the opposite of squaring a number
What is square rooting?
The website to upload homework
What is Buzz?
where the graph crosses the y-axis
What is the y-intercept (b)?
the method of factoring we need to use when given ax2+bx+c and a is not 1
What is the Box Method?
What is the end behavior of a polynomial?
the cube root of 27
What is 3?
the basic version of a function without any translations
What is a parent function?
What is the slope-intercept equation of a line?
the maximum or minimum value of a parabola
What is the vertex?
a method for dividing polynomials that only uses the coefficients of the terms
What is synthetic division?
what you do after isolating the radical in an equation
What is "square both sides"?
an equation that takes an x-value as an input and gives a y-value as an output
What is a function?
y - y1= m (x - x1)
What is point-slope form?
x= -b + or - the square root of b2 - 4ac all over 2a
What is the Quadratic Formula?
the x-intercepts of a polynomial
What are roots/zeros?
the method you need to use when dividing by a square root
What is rationalizing the denominator?
a situation where there is more than one equation to solve for x and y
What is a system of equations?