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Use the function f(x) = -16x² + 60x + 16 to answer the questions.
Part A: Completely factor f(x). (2 points)
Part B: What are the x-intercepts of the graph of f(x)? Show your work. (2 points
Part C: Describe the end behavior of the graph of f(x). Explain. (2 points)
Part D: What are the steps you would use to graph f(x)? Justify that you can use the answers obtained in Part B and Part C to draw the graph

Answer 1

Here we have the quadratic function:

f(x) = -16*x^2 + 60*x + 16

We can see that it is in standard form:

y = a*x^2 + b*x + c

a) First we want to completely factorize the function f(x).

To do it, we first need to find the roots of f(x).

Remember that for a generic quadratic equation:

a*x^2 + b*x + c = 0

whit roots x₁ and x₂, the factorized form is:

a*(x - x₁)*(x - x₂)

And the roots are given by:

$x = \frac{-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4*a*c} }{2*a}$

Then for the case of f(x) = -16*x^2 + 60*x + 16, the roots are:

$x = \frac{-60 \pm \sqrt{60^2 - 4*(-16)*16} }{2*(-16)} = \frac{-60 \pm 68}{-32}$

So the two roots are:

x₁ = (-60 + 68)/-32 = -0.25

x₂ = (-60 - 68)/-32 = 4

Then the factorized form is:

f(x) = -16*(x - 4)*(x + 0.25)

B) We already found the roots, which are:

x₁ =  -0.25

x₂ =  4

These are the x-intercepts:

(-0.25, 0) and (4, 0)

C) We can see that the leading coefficient is negative.

This means that the arms of the graph go downwards, so as |x| increases, the value of f(x) tends to negative infinity.

D) To graph f(x) we can find some of the points of the graph (like the x-intercepts and some more of them) and then connect them with a parabola curve, the graph that you will get is the one that you can see below.

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