Given is the family of functions f(x) = 1/2 x^2 + 2x + c

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a. Take c = 16 and calculate the coordinates of the points of intersection of the accompanying parabola with the x axis?

b. What are the coordinates of the top of the parabola in a?

c. For which value(s) of c does the accompanying graph not have any points in common with the x axis?

Guest Mar 18, 2019

Melody · Answer 1 · 2019-03-18T08:38:01

a)

the equation of the x axis is y=0

so you need to know where

y = 1/2 x^2 + 2x +16 and y=0 both at the same time.

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