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What name is given to the shape of a quadratic function?
A parabola
What is a parabola that opens to the right called?
It is a square root mapping. This is not a function since it is a one-to-many mapping.
How do you do a parabola?
A parabola is a graph of a 2nd degree polynomial function. Two graph a parabola, you must factor the polynomial equation and solve for the roots and the vertex. If factoring doesn't work, use the quadratic equation.
Parabola is the point at which the parabola is at its lowest or highest point?
A parabola is NOT a point, it is the whole curve.
What is the relationship between a function and its derivative?
The derivative if a function is basically it's slope, or its rate of change. An example is the function y = 4x - 6. This is a line with a slope of 4. The derivative is y' = 4. Another example is the function y = 3x2. This is a parabola with a vertex at (0,0). Its derivative is y' = 6x. At x = 0, the slope of the parabola is 6*0, which is 0, since this is the vertex of the parabola. To the left, at x is -4 for example, the derivative (and therefore slope) is negative. To the right, at x = 5 for example, the derivative is positive. The farther away from the vertex, the greater the value of the derivative so the the slope of the function increases as you move away from the vertex (it gets steeper).
