You would best do this by completing the square on the quadratic and subbing in the vertex they give you, like this:

Since the y coordinate of the vertex is 1/2 and we need to solve for c, set the

equal to 1/2 and solve for c, which is the whole point of what we are doing, right?

and


and c = 4. So that's our answer!
Answer:
-8.5
Step-by-step explanation:
-4x+8=42
-4x=42-8
-4x=34
x=34/-4
x=-8.5
So you can set this problem up like 6+ 1.25x because Christian has $6 in his wallet that is the total so we can leave it so far by itself without a variable. Now on the other hand, the apples Christian wants to buy is $1.25 per apple it is x because if it is more than 1 that is each so in math we represent it with a variable of just x . Hoped that helped :)