LilyC

Okay, thanks! I think it does :)

Lily

Can you show any work? At the moment I don't have a calculator that can do that :/

Lily

Thanks CPhill and Hectictar for trying this problem! I'll definitely ask her. She didn't review it completely when I asked before (I DID, however, realize that there's a different method when it comes to these), but we're going to have some time to review for our final in our next few classes, so I'll let you know how it goes!

Thanks again!

Lily

That would be the Associative Property of Addition! It doesn't matter what order you put these numbers in, as long as they are all being added! :)

Thank you CPhill! That helps a lot!

Lily

Thanks CPhill!

Thanks! This also helped: https://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/quadratics/features-of-quadratic-functions/v/ex3-completing-the-square

Well, I'm still a little confused.  Are all scatter plots meant to be linear? Or can they be exponential, in y=ab^x form?  (Just wondering)

I don't know why they haven't taught me this yet!  Thanks to both of you!