Question

What is the equation of the graph below in vertex form, y=a(x – h)2 + k? Using complete sentences, explain how you developed your equation

Answer 1

(h, k) is your vertex

Answer 2

wow, I don't think we developed the equation. That was done a long time ago......

Answer 3

In 800 AD, al-Khwarizmi, a Persian mathematician, created six new ... Convert quadratic functions from standard to vertex form by completing the square
I found this on the internet

Answer 4

http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Khwarizmi.html
see the little square on the right side,
that is the example of how he did it,
using completing the square...........

Answer 5

but how do you convert it to a sentence

Answer 6

I thought I did do that, perhaps you should take some quadratics and convert them to that form using completing the square