If I take what you wrote literally, then I suspect we are going to come out very wrong here. You see and are two very different things. Hence, in
is just treated as a constant because you are defining the function as a function of lower case as the independent variable.
Therefore
but I very much doubt that is what you meant.
On the other hand, if you really meant:
Then
By the way, instead of typing out "squared," use the caret mark (^) to indicate raising to a power. Your function would have been properly rendered g(x) = x^2 - 4x
John
My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it
