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OpenStudy (anonymous):

When a parabola opens upward, we call the y-value of the vertex the minimum value of the function. Why do we call it the minimum value?

OpenStudy (p0sitr0n):

because the values decrease until the vertex, and as it is symmetric, it after increases, making the vertex the point of symmetry and the lower point.

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