What would you have to do to move the graph of
y = x 2 down 2 units on the axes

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What would you have to do to move the graph of 
y = x 2 down 2 units on the axes

anonymous · Answer

Take 2 off of every y value right?

anonymous · Answer

answers are like 	
Multiply by − 2.
	Add − 2 to be squared with the x
	Add + 2 to both sides.
	Add − 2 to the expression.
	None of the above

anonymous · Answer

Yes well I'm asking you.. What does it mean to move the graph down 2?

anonymous · Answer

-2 ook

anonymous · Answer

-2 to what? The y values or the x values?

anonymous · Answer

add -2? y?

anonymous · Answer

Ok, so what do the y values equal?

anonymous · Answer

-2

anonymous · Answer

The y values equal the square of the x values. $x^2$ right? So to make those y values 2 less than they were before we subtract 2 from the $x^2$

anonymous · Answer

Maybe it would help to take a specific value.

You have y=x^2 so when x is 0, y is 0.

What you want is that when x is 0, y is -2.

So what do you have to do to the equation to make that happen?