Question

Select the point that is on the right side of the vertex of y = |x + 4| + 3.

Answer 1

A. (-3, 4)
B. (-4, 3)
C. (-5, 4)
D. (-6, 5)

Answer 2

Did you graph it? Or you can do it bu pure math.

Answer 3

i dont even know how to do any of this..

Answer 4

Well, know what the graph of |x| looks like?

Answer 5

nope

Answer 6

i suck at algebra..

Answer 7

Because the absolute value is always positive, it makes the y value the same as the x value, but positive.

Now that is y=|x| but yours has some shifts: y = |x + 4| + 3

Answer 8

what...?

Answer 9

The things inside ( ) or | | and next to x are shifts to the x value. Oddly, when you shift x this way it goes the opposite way. so |x+1| means shift LEFT by 1. |x+4| means shift left by 4.

Answer 10

this is confusing me a lot

Answer 11

Yah, is is not an easy topic to explain. That is why I am taking it one step at a time.

Answer 12

So that is:
y = |x + 4|
but you need:
y = |x + 4| + 3

The +3 is a y shift. It makes it go up three.

Answer 13

That is the graph they are asking about.