Question

What is your strategy for graphing a linear equation? Do you think you can use the same strategy to graph a quadratic equation? Explain why or why not.

Answer 1

To graph a linear equation, you use y=mx+b. To graph a quadratic equation you use y=ax^2 + bx + c. You cannot use the same strategy to graph a quadratic equation, as in order to graph a quadratic equation, you would execute it differently. The idea is the same however, to plug numbers into the equation to find your coordinates.