Name: __________________________ Date: _________________________

MFM2P – Choice Assignment #5
Due: Friday, April 27th, 2007

	Please show all your work, and answer all questions on another page (1 mark).  Good luck and have fun

1) List three examples of parabolas in real life (other than Spider-Man’s swinging). 

2) List the following:
	a) one quality about the shape of the parabola
	b) one quality about the equation of a parabola
	c) one quality about the terminology of a parabola

3) Graph the following (using a table of values from x = -3 to x = 3)
a) y = x²	b) y = x² + 4	c) y = (x – 3)²		d) y = -(x²)
Write one interesting point about b, c, and d in comparison to  a)
HINT: Remember your order of operations

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