Select the locations on the number line to plot the points −2 , −11 , and −17 .

With this information the answer would be GO down twice into the negatives and make you plot point, next go down eleven times and make your plot point, and last go down seventeen times and make your plot point.

Step-by-step explanation: What you have to do is make the number line with a zero at in the middle on the left of the zero you go down into the the negative numbers and on the right you go up into the positive numbers

if the eqn of the parabola is f(x) = (x-4)(x+2), we need to mult. this out to find the coordinates of the vertex.

then f(x) = x^2 + 2x - 4x - 8, and f(x) = x^2 - 2x - 8.

one way in which you can find the vertex is to calculate x = -b / (2a).   here, that comes to

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x = = 1.   f(1) = 1^2 - 2(1) - 8 = - 9.   vertex is at (1, -9).

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find another point on the curve:   let x=0, for which y=-8.   then (0, -8) is on the curve.   plot the vertex and this point and draw a smooth parabola thru both.

hope this

answer: no, but if it does it's a obvious pattern.

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