Question

Give an parabola equation that touches the x-axis

Answer 1

this is beyond cheating already

Answer 2

The picture seems to cut the x axis and not touch the x axis.

Answer 3

well he just said that it should touch the x-axis. and it does it just intersects it

Answer 4

I interpreted it as the x axis being a tangent to the parabola at the vertex.

Answer 5

well i did kind too at first but it just says "touches it" so maybe @Diamondsforlife should show us

Answer 6

one of those questions that has more than one interpretation.

Answer 7

if the first one doesnt work then the equation for a porabola with the vertex at the origin could be just simply y=x^2 although that might not be what he is looking for again

Answer 8

\[y = a(x \pm b)^{2}\] will work too.

Answer 9

or x=a(y-k)^2
if he wanted to make it horizontal

Answer 10

ok well i guess im done here. he gets the idea of what to do

Answer 11

yep