Answer:
The roots of the equation are x=-3 and x=-2.5
Step-by-step explanation:
<u><em>The correct quadratic equation is</em></u>
2x^2+11x+15=0
we know that
The formula to solve a quadratic equation of the form
is equal to
in this problem we have
so
substitute in the formula
therefore
The roots of the equation are x=-3 and x=-2.5
Answer:
f(x) = -2|x-2| +4
Step-by-step explanation:
<u>Step 1</u>: recognize this as an inverted, scaled, and translated absolute value function.
<u>Step 2</u>: identify the scale factor as 2, because each section has a "rise" of 2 for each "run" of 1. The scale factor is -2 because the function is inverted (reflected across the x-axis).
<u>Step 3</u>: identify the vertex* as (2, 4).
<u>Step 4</u>: Use the scale factor and translation information to make the transformation ... (let abs(x) represent the absolute value function)
f(x) = (scale factor)×abs(x -horizontal shift) + (vertical shift)
f(x) = -2|x -2| +4
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* The vertex is an identifiable point on the graph of this function. Knowing how the vertex is translated tells you how the whole function is translated. In general, you want to use an identifiable point (a turning point, point of symmetry, extreme point, whatever) when you're trying to determine the translation. For some functions, like a line, there is no specific identifiable point, so determining any specific translation is difficult or impossible.
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<em>Comment on writing functions from graphs</em>
One of the reasons for studying different functions is so you can learn to recognize their shape, and associate a formula and certain properties with that shape.
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The attached graph shows the parent absolute value function in blue and the transformed function f(x) in red.
