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document.write( "If a > 0 it's a minimum.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "If a < 0 it's a max.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "How do you calculate the maximum/minimum?<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Find the Line of Symmetry.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "LOS is x = -b/2a<BR>\n" );
document.write( "The min/max is (-b/2a,f(-b/2a))\r<BR>\n" );
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