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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour Brought to you by downward opening for abdullah's way

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We planted them all the graph of y equals x

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squared minus two x plus six is shown beloved what's

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the value of a and here's the bench lands Okay

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let's take a quick inventory way Have a problem We

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have a graph and we have our brain Hopefully that's

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enough The equation of the parabola is given its why

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equals x squared minus two x plus six and we're

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being asked to find the value of a right No

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problems There are a few points this parable of passes

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through i look to this graph Negative six zero hero

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thing two zero we can plug in any of them

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But what fans of small numbers around here so let's

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use to zero the equation will become zero equals a

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times two squared minus two times to plus six We

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could clean that puppy up a bit but two squared

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is four and two temps two is also four so

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we can rewrite as zero equals for a minus four

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plus six and of course the minus foreign plus six

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Or really just positive too So we're left with zero

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equals four a plus to subtract two from both sides

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to get negative Two equals for a then divide Both

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sides fight for to get negative a half people's a

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and it looks like our answer is c nice work 00:01:23.092 --> [endTime] framed on your end

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