Question

in an inequality graph when do you shade in everything inside the parabola and when do you shade in everything outside

Answer 1

You mean like this?
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=y%3Ex%5E2

y>x^2

pick an easy number for x ( for example, x=0)
then you have y>0
so you know points like (0,3), (0,4), etc meet the test. so color them in, and every other point on that side of the parbola