SOLUTION: sketch the graph of the parabola y=-5x(squared)

Question 86190: sketch the graph of the parabola
y=-5x(squared)
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
sketch the graph of the parabola
y=-5x(squared)
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y=-5x^2
Plot three points and you would be able to sketch the parabola
If x=0, y=0 (this is the vertex
If x=1, y = -5
If x=-1 y = -5
See how the parabola opens down from the vertex at (0,0)?

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Cheers,
Stan H.
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