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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke too

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Sure brought to you by symmetry It's really bugging us

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that the word is in a palindrome Quadratic function is

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shown in the graph below Quadratic function b has the

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equation f of x equals x squared plus five x

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plus six function a's axis of symmetry is blank function

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bees access of symmetry Well it's dropped down time and

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there isn't even a fire We have three possible answers

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in our little drop down thing here left of right

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of and same at well we're told that the graph

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is showing quadratic function a and then we're given the

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equation for a quadratic function B it's up to us

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to figure out what relation the two axes of symmetry

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have to one another you can't cheat but check that

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paternity record well for starters operable its axis of symmetry

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It's this vertical line that passes through its centre in

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the case of quadratic function a it'd be this line

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right here x equals two point five to find these

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axes of symmetry Well we're going to need to plug

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in Chuck We used the equation X equals negative b

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over two A where is the coefficient of the x

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squared term And b is the coefficient of the extra

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In the equation given to us we've got an x

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squared coefficient of one and an ex coefficient of five

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Well that's going to give us x equals negative five

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over two times one or negative five half So what

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does that tell us Well we don't care about the

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numbers so much as we care about the negative that's

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What tells us a cz access of symmetry is to

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the right of bees We have our answer by the

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way you have a rather lovely axes of symmetry yourself 00:01:38.138 --> [endTime] there if you don't mind my saying so

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