SOLUTION: I now have a better understanding of graphing, but need a litte help on this one. Maybe I have not mastered the tool yet. Could you please graph: x=-y^2+2y-1 Thank you ver

Question 99121: I now have a better understanding of graphing, but need a litte help on this one. Maybe I have not mastered the tool yet.
Could you please graph:
x=-y^2+2y-1
Thank you very much.
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Start with the given equation

Factor out a negative to make the first coefficient equal to 1

Factor the right side (note: if you need help with factoring, check out this solver)

Rewrite as

Multiply both sides by -1

Take the square root of both sides

Add 1 to both sides

So our equation breaks into two parts

or

So the first part looks like this

and the second part looks like this

Putting them together we get

graph of which is also the graph of
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