Now I'm gonna have a little bit of a gap and I'm gonna have minus eight, and I have another a little bit of a gap and I'm gonna say equals zero. So, what I'm going to do, this is what you typically do when you try to complete the square. Out x plus a squared, that is x squared plus two a x, I'll make that plus sign you can see, plus two a x, plus a squared, and of course you still have If I were to expand out x plus a squared, let me do that in a different color. The left-hand side in order to get to this form. Well let's just remind ourselves how we need to rearrange The left-hand in this form that we can actually solve it in a pretty straightforward way. Side of this equation into the form x plus a squared plus b, and we'll see if we can write Now what does that mean? Well that means that I wanna write, I wanna write the left-hand Way we're going to tackle it is by completing the square. We could just try toįactor the left-hand side and go that way, but the So back to the problem at hand, and there's actually several ways that you could attack this problem. And actually, they're cuttingĭown some trees outside, so my apologies if you hear
So let's see if we can solve this quadratic equation right over here: x squared minus two x minus eight is equal to zero. Then there isn't a -8 in the vertex form, (x-1)² - 9 = 0Īnd (x-1)² - 9 tells us there are no stretches or shrinks, the graph is just the normal x² graph moved right 1 and down 9 units.Īgain, let me know if you have any questions about my answer. I hope this all made sense, if not though just let me know what you didn't understand and I can explain.Īlso the -8 is the constant in x²-2x-8=0, so it is c. Then you would just have AB^2 as one component which would account for both vertical and horizontal stretches and shrinks. You could also Not have B if you factor it out like this. Specifically you want want it written as A(B(x-C))^2 + D Where A is the vertical stetch, B is the horizontal shrink, C is the horizontal shift and D is the vertical shift. When it comes to graphing, vertex form is the easiest by far to recognize transformations. It is also much easier to get the 0s which would be +/- sqrt(-b) - a.
This is called vertex form, and as the name implied it very easily lets you tell the vertex (the max or min of a parabola.) Specifically it is (-a, b)