The Parabola: y = a(x + p)² + q

A parabola is the graph of a quadratic function. Grade 11 works mainly with the completed-square form $y = a(x + p)^{2} + q$ where $a \neq 0$ . The parameters $a$ , $p$ and $q$ control shape, horizontal shift and…

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