If o<span>n a coordinate grid, Ming's house is located 2 blocks to the right and (I suppose also 2) blocks up from (0. 0), then the ordered pair that describes the location of Ming's house is (2,2) (moving right 2 units from some point you have to add 2 units to the x-coordinate of the point from which you are moving and moving up 2 units from this point you have to add 2 units to y-coordinate of the point from which you are moving up).
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If Joe's house is located 3 blocks to the right and 2 blocks down from Ming's house, then the ordered pair that describes the location of Ming's house is (2+3,2-2), that is (5,0) <span><span>(moving right 3 units from some point you have to add 3 units to
the x-coordinate of the point from which you are moving and moving down 2 units
from the point you have to substract 2 units from y-coordinate of the point from which you are moving down)</span>.</span>
Converting to vertex form is one way of doing this
2x^2 + 12x + 19
= 2(x^2 + 6x) + 19
= 2 [ x + 3)^2 - 9] + 19
= 2(x + 3)^2 - 18 + 19
= 2(x + 3)^2 + 1
the minimum value is 1
I'd have to say the slop is - 1/24
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