SOLUTION: what is the vertex of the parabola y=4x^2+8x+3 what is a parabola?

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Question 204614: what is the vertex of the parabola y=4x^2+8x+3
what is a parabola?

Answer by Earlsdon(6294)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the vertex of the parabola:

The x-coordinate of the vertex is given by:
and a = 4, b = 8, so...

now substitute this into the original equation and solve for y.


The vertex is at (-1, -1)
A parabola is the shape of the curve you get when you graph a quadratic equation.

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