4th FormMinimum and Maximum Value

1. Items 1 5 refer to the following diagram below:

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-5

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y=x2-8x+15

a) What are the solutions of the quadratic graph above?

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b) State whether the curve has a maximum or a minimum value.

c) What is the maximum or the minimum value?
d) What is the equation of the axis of symmetry?
e) What is the c in the y intercept?

2. Each of the following questions relate to the quadratic function f(x) = x2 + 6x - 7

a) At which point does the curve cross the y axis?
b) At which of the two points does it cross the x axis?
c) Solve the equation by first completing the square.
d) What is the equation of the axis of symmetry?

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e) What is the coordinates of the minimum point?

3. Each of the following questions relate to the quadratic function f(x) = 3 2x x2

a) At which point does the curve cross the y axis?

b) At which of the two points does it cross the x axis?
c) Solve the equation by first completing the square.
d) What is the equation of the axis of symmetry?
e) What is the coordinates of the maximum point?
f)

What is the maximum value of f(x)?

g) Sketch the graph

4. a) Write f(x)= -x2 + 3x 2 in the form a (x + h)2 + k, where a, h and k are real numbers.
b) Hence, determine,
i) the maximum value of the function of f(x)
ii) the value of x at which the maximum occurs
iii) the axis of symmetry

c) Find the values of x for which f( x)= -x2 + 3x 2 = 0

d) Sketch the graph of f(x)= -x2 + 3x 2, clearly showing:

i) the coordinates of the maximum point

ii) the value of the y intercept
iii) the points where the graph cuts the x axis

5. The graph below represents the function 6f(x) = x2+8x 15.

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Use the graph to determine:

a) The value of f(x) when x = 2

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y=x2-8x+15

b) The value of f(x) when x = 0

c) The minimum value of f(x)

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d) The value of x at which f(x) is a minimum

e)The solution x2 +8x 15=3
f) the interval on the domain for which f(x) is less than -3

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6.The graph below represents the function of the form: f(x) = ax2 + bx 15
+c

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-6

-4

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Use the graph to determine:

a)
b)
c)
d)

The value of f(x) when x = o

The equation of the axis of symmetry
The values of x when f(x) = 5
The coordinates of the maximum point

y=8 - 2x - x2

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June 2005 Question 9

a) Write 5x2 + 2x 7 in the form a(x + b)2 + c, where a, b and c are real numbers.
b) Hence, or otherwise, determine:
i) the minimum value of the function y = 5x2 + 2x 7.
ii) the value of x at which the minimum occurs
iii) the axis of symmetry
c) Find the values of x for which 5x2 + 2x 7 = 0
d) Sketch the graph of y = 5x2 + 2x 7, clearly showing:
i) the coordinates of the minimum point
ii) the value of the y intercept
iii) the points where the graph cuts the x axis.