SOLUTION: find the vertex of the parabola F(x)=2x^2+8x+3 Can you please show the work so that I can get a full understanding. Thank you

Question 677673: find the vertex of the parabola
F(x)=2x^2+8x+3
Can you please show the work so that I can get a full understanding.
Thank you
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

This is a parabola with a minimum and not a maximum
I can tell because the squared term is positive. If I changed it
to then it would have a maximum.
The vertex is the (x,y) point at the minimum ( or maximum )
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The x-coordinate of the vertex occurs halfway
between the roots, which are
the two solutions to
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To get a deeper understanding of this look at the
quadratic formula which gives these two solutions
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Now I'll separate the terms in each solution:

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Now what you have is:
= ( x coordinate of the vertex ) + ( the positive correction )
= ( x coordinate of the vertex ) - ( the negative correction )
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So, you can see that is the x-coordinate of the vertex
when the form of the equation is
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I can apply this to your problem

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Now you know the vertex is at ( -2, y ). To find y, plug
into the equation

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The vertex is at ( -2, -5 )
Here's a plot of the equation:

The vertex is where is should be

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