Example 5: Graph y = x^2 + 2x + 3
Find the vertex and the axis of symmetry. Sketch these in.
• Find the x-intercept by plugging in 0 for y.
• Find the y-intercept by plugging in 0 for x.
• Reflect your points across the axis of symmetry and connect your dots with a smooth
U-shaped (not V-shaped) curve.
fix the fallowing
- a = 1, b = 2, c = 3
- x^2 + 2x + 3
- find the line of symmetry -
- x = (b/2a)
- x = -(2) / 2(1) =1
- use this to find the vertex
- since we know that the along the x axis at -1 will be the vertex we replace x with 1 in the original formula
- x=1
- y = x^2 -2x - 8
- y = 1^2 + -2 * 1 - 8 = 1- 2 - 8 = -9
- y = -9
- x=1
- the vertex is (1, -9)
- since the vertex is -1,-9 we know that x=1 is the axis of symmetry
- finding the y-intercept is the easiest to start with because we just replace x with 0
- x = 0 | y = x^2 -2x - 8
- y = 0 - 8 = -8
- y-intercept = (0,-8)
- so so To find the x-intercepts, you can set y equal to zero and solve for x:
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y = 0 | x = (-b ± sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)) / 2a
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x = (-(-2) ± sqrt((-2)^2 - 4(1)(-8))) / 2(1)
x = (2 ± sqrt(4 + 32)) / 2
x = (2 ± sqrt(36)) / 2
x = (2 ± 6) / 2
x = 8 / 2 or x = -4/ 2
x = 4 or x = -2
sooooo (-2,0) & (4,0)
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- so since we know 3 y axis points on the graph and the axis of symmetry we can get another point without doing much work
- symmetry line = x = 1,
- calc'd x-intercept 0,-8
- the symmetry line is 1 and the known point is 0 since 1-0 = 1 we can add that to the x coordinate of y and keep the same y coordinate to get the mirrored point making another point on the graph (2,-8)
- since we need one more point for the graph we can choose say x=3, | x^2 -2x - 8
- y = 3^2 -3*2 - 8 = -5
- soooo the new point is (3,-5) if we mirror that along 1,-9 we get (-1, -5 ) because 3 is 2 more than 1, and 2 less than 1 is -1. we also keep the same y coordinate
- y = 3^2 -3*2 - 8 = -5
- so all points are:
- (1, -9)
- (0,-8)
- (2, -8)
- (3,-5)
- (-1,-5)
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