Use the function to answer the question.
f(x) = -2|x - 5| + 3
What is the vertex of the graph of f(x)?

Question

Use the function to answer the question.
f(x) = -2|x - 5| + 3
What is the vertex of the graph of f(x)?

anonymous · Answer

vertex of the graph is the point where it shifts from increasing to decreasing or decreasing to increasing ...like two lines meeting at one point...one is -2(x-5)+3 and other line will be -2(-(x-5)) +3 ...equate the two ,yu will get the answer

jigglypuff314 · Answer

it is already in vertex form which refers to f(x) = m(x - h) + k
m = slope ,  (h , k) = vertex
so for      f(x) = -2|x - 5| + 3
                                ^h     ^k

parthkohli · Answer

The vertex is either the maximum or minimum. The thing here is that if we have a maximum, we won't have a minimum. The graph of these functions with an absolute value is like a "V" extending to infinity to one side. 

I have more kinds of analyses but trial and test would be OK. 
-2|x - 5| will be 0 when x = 5 
When it's 1, then we have -2|x - 5

parthkohli · Answer

-2|x+5| would be -2|1+5| = -12

parthkohli · Answer

Is it -12 for something else too?