SOLUTION: Use the graph of y = x^2 + 4x - 5 to answer the following: a) Without solving the equation or factoring, determine the solution(s) to the equation, , using only the graph.

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Question 412729: Use the graph of y = x^2 + 4x - 5 to answer the following:

a) Without solving the equation or factoring, determine the solution(s) to the equation, , using only the graph.

Answer:
Explain how you obtained your answer(s) by looking at the graph:
b) Does this function have a maximum or a minimum?
Answer:
Explain how you obtained your answer by looking at the graph:
c) What are the coordinates of the vertex in (x, y) form?
Answer:
d) What is the equation of the line of symmetry for this graph?
Answer:



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Hi

Graphing: y = x^2 + 4x - 5

a)solutions: (1,0) and (-5,0)

b) Does this function have a maximum or a minimum? minimum

c) V(-2,-9)

d) x = -2 is the line of symmetry





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your work etc.

http://www.padowan.dk/graph/Download.php