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If you don't have enough experience to be able to visualize the graph by
looking at the equation, then here's what I suggest:

-- Write the equation:

y2 = -8x

-- Divide each side by -8 :

- 1/8 y2 = x

-- Now take a piece of paper and a pencil. Make a list of 5 or 10 or 15 or 20 numbers
for 'y', some negative and some positive. Then, for each number on the y-list, use the
equation to calculate the corresponding value of 'x', and write that next to it.

-- On the graph, mark a dot at each of the points you calculated. Keep marking more
points until you can see how it's shaping up, and what the curve will look like.

I believe you're going to wind up with a parabola, with its nose at the origin, lying on its
side and opening to the left.

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