document.write( "Question 319378: Please help me understand this parabola question. Find the x- and y- intercepts of the graph. y=-3x^2+6x-5, I can't seem to come up with the right numbers to answer this, and not sure how to graph it out afterwards. I came up with (-1,3) but it doesn't look right. \n" ); document.write( "

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-intercept is trivial. Just substitute 0 for

and the value of

is equal to the constant term, namely -5. Hence, the

-intercept is

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-intercepts are at the real zeros of the polynomial function. Check the discriminant:

, hence there are no real zeros and therefore no

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