SOLUTION: how do you find where a parabola is increasing and decreasing if it's facing down? ex: Increasing on x < 1; Decreasing on x

SOLUTION: how do you find where a parabola is increasing and decreasing if it's facing down? ex: Increasing on x < 1; Decreasing on x > 1 what would that graph look like?

Question 628436: how do you find where a parabola is increasing and decreasing if it's facing down?
ex: Increasing on x < 1; Decreasing on x > 1
what would that graph look like?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
how do you find where a parabola is increasing and decreasing if it's facing down?
ex: Increasing on x < 1; Decreasing on x > 1
what would that graph look like?
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Draw a parabola opening upward with its vertex at (1,y)
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That parabola is decreasing as x increases from -100 to 1
and increasing as x increases from 1 to 100.
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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