Graphing Quadratics
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1) What is the rate of change function for the quadratic ?
ROC
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2) How can the ROC function be used to find the
x-coordinate of the vertex?
3) Find the vertex (ordered pair!)
4) Is the vertex a maximum or minimum? HOW DO YOU KNOW?
5) Where is the initial value for the original
quadratic? (ordered pair!)
6) Use everything above to sketch a graph for the
original quadratic
7) What is the rate of change function for the quadratic ?
ROC
=
8) Find the vertex (ordered pair!)
9) Is the vertex a max or min? HOW DO YOU KNOW?
10) What is the initial value for the original quadratic?
(ordered pair!)
11) What are the zeros of this quadratic? (Think back one
unit ago, you know this!)
12) Use everything above to sketch a graph for the
original quadratic
13) Find the vertex of without finding the rate of change function