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Worksheet

Sketching curves
The following events happened in which well-known person’s life?
• 1831 Failed in business – bankruptcy
• 1832 Defeated for Legislature
• 1834 Failed in business again – bankruptcy
• 1835 Sweetheart and fiancée died
• 1836 Nervous breakdown
• 1838 Defeated in an election
• 1843 Defeated for US Congress
• 1846 Defeated again for US Congress
• 1848 Defeated once again for US Congress
• 1855 Defeated for US Senate
• 1856 Defeated for US Vice President
• 1858 Defeated again for US Senate
• 1860 Elected President of the United States

10 9 3 10 6 10 5 8 1 7 4 2 8 7

Places the letters for each answer in the questions on the next page in the boxes above.

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Questions Solutions
Work out which graph belongs to each of the A
following equations.
y
2
1  y 5 x 1 4x 1 3

2
2  y 5 x 2 7x 1 12 23 21 2 x

2
3  y 5 3x 2 6x 2 9

2
4  y 5 2x 2 9x 2 5
B
3 y
5  y 5 x 1 x2 2 4x 2 4

45

3
6  y 5 x 1 2x2 2 8x
23 21 3 5 x

3
7  y 5 x 1 3x2 2 13x 2 15
C

3
8  y 5 x 1 6x2 2 4x 2 24

21 5 x
2

25
4 3 2
9  y 5 x 2 4x 2 14x 1 36x 1 45

4
10  y 5 x 1 2x3 2 5x2 2 6x

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y y

24 2 x
25 21 3 x

215

I
y

O
3
y

12
23 21 x

L
y

26 22 2 x

3 4 x

224

R
M
y
y

21 3 x

22 21 2 x 29

24

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