On a coordinate plane, two parabolas open up. The solid-line parabola goes through (1, 3), has a vertex at (3, negative 1), and
goes through (5, 3). The dashed-line parabola goes through (negative 2, 4), has a vertex at (0, 0), and goes through (2, 4). Which best describes the transformation from the graph of f(x) = x2 to the graph of
f(x) = (x – 3)2 – 1?
left 3 units, down 1 unit
left 3 units, up 1 unit
right 3 units, down 1 unit
right 3 units, up 1 unit
There are (15 - 6) terms in between, therefore 9 terms in between. -8 to -62 ... there is a difference of 54 54 ÷ 9 = 6 Therefore it gets -6 each term. a6 = -8, a7= -14, a8 = -20 ......