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SHORT ANSWER. Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
Graph the equation by hand. To begin, substitute the indicated values for x and complete the table. Make
other substitutions as necessary.
1) y = 2x2
x y y
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2 x
3
Answer:
y
x y 20
-3 18 (-3, 18) (3, 18)
-2 8 10
-1 2 (-2, 8) (2, 8)
0 0 (-1, 2) (1, 2)
1 2
-5 (0, 0) 5 x
2 8
3 18
-10
1
-20
2
2) y = -x2 - 2
x y y
-3
-2
-1
0
1
2 x
3
Answer:
y
x y 10
-3 -11
-2 -6
-1 -3
0 -2 -5 (0, -2) 5 x
1 -3 (-1, -3) (1, -3)
2 -6
3 -11 (-2, -6) (2, -6)
3
3) y = x2 - 4x + 3
x y y
-1
0
1
2
3
4 x
5
Answer:
y
x y 10
-1 8 (-1, 8) (5, 8)
0 3
1 0 (0, 3) (4, 3)
2 -1 (1, 0) (3, 0)
3 0
4 3 -5 5 x
5 8 (2, -1)
-10
4
4) y = -2x2 + 3x + 2
y
x y
-2
-1
0
1
2 x
3
4
Answer:
y
x y
-2 -12
10
-1 -3
0 2 (1, 3)
1 3 (0, 2) (2, 0)
2 0 -5 5 x
3 -7 (-1, -3) (3, -7)
4 -18
(-2, -12) -10
(4, -18)
MULTIPLE CHOICE. Choose the one alternative that best completes the statement or answers the
question. Sketch by hand the graph of the function. Give the coordinates for the vertex.
5) y = x2 - 9
y
10
-10 -5 5 10 x
-5
-10
5
A) vertex: (-9, 0) B) vertex: (0, -9)
y y
10 10
5 5
-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x
-5 -5
-10 -10
5 5
-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x
-5 -5
-10 -10
Answer: B
6) y = x2 + 5x + 4
y
10
-10 -5 5 10 x
-5
-10
6
5 9 5 9
A) vertex: ,- B) vertex: ,-
2 4 2 4
y y
10 10
5 5
-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x
-5
-5
-10
-10
5 9 5 9
C) vertex: - ,- D) vertex: - ,-
2 4 2 4
y y
10 10
5 5
-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x
-5 -5
-10
-10
Answer: C
7) y = x2 + 4x + 5
y
10
-10 -5 5 10 x
-5
-10
7
A) vertex: (-2, -1) B) vertex: (2, 1)
y y
10 10
5 5
-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x
-5 -5
-10 -10
5 5
-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x
-5 -5
-10 -10
Answer: D
8) y = -x2 - 2x - 5
y
10
-10 -5 5 10 x
-5
-10
8
A) vertex: (-1, -4) B) vertex: (1, 4)
y y
10 10
5 5
-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x
-5 -5
-10 -10
5 5
-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x
-5 -5
-10 -10
Answer: A
9) y = -2x2 - 16x - 33
y
10
-10 -5 5 10 x
-5
-10
9
A) vertex (4, -1) B) vertex: (-4, -1)
y y
10 10
5 5
-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x
-5 -5
-10 -10
5 5
-10 -5 5 10 x -10 -5 5 10 x
-5 -5
-10 -10
Answer: B
y
6
-6 -4 -2 2 4 6 x
-2
-4
-6
A) 1 B) -3 C) -5 D) No such
value
Answer: B
10
11) Find y when x = 1.
y
6
-6 -4 -2 2 4 6 x
-2
-4
-6
A) -5 B) -2 C) 4 D) No such
value
Answer: C
y
6
-6 -4 -2 2 4 6 x
-2
-4
-6
A) 2 B) -2 C) -1 D) No such
value
Answer: A
11
13) Find x when y = -4.
y
6
-6 -4 -2 2 4 6 x
-2
-4
-6
A) 1, 4 B) -3, 5 C) 5, -4 D) No such
value
Answer: B
y
6
-6 -4 -2 2 4 6 x
-2
-4
-6
A) 4, 5 B) -2, 4 C) 1, -4 D) No such
value
Answer: B
12
15) Find x when y = -3.
y
6
-6 -4 -2 2 4 6 x
-2
-4
-6
A) -2 B) -2, 0 C) -1 D) No such
value
Answer: D
y
6
-6 -4 -2 2 4 6 x
-2
-4
-6
13
17) Find the maximum point.
y
6
-6 -4 -2 2 4 6 x
-2
-4
-6
y
6
-6 -4 -2 2 4 6 x
-2
-4
-6
14
19) Find the y-intercept(s).
y
6
-6 -4 -2 2 4 6 x
-2
-4
-6
x y
-2 -8
-4 0
-1 -9
2 0
0 -8
A) -9 B) 0 C) -8 D) 2
Answer: C
x y
-4 -5
-5 0
-2 -9
1 0
0 -5
A) -4 , 0 B) - 5, 0 C) -4 , 1 D) 0
Answer: A
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“Oh, shucks,” said Laurie. “That doesn’t sound like sense. Does it,
Bob?”
“Well, I guess whoever owns this little strip wouldn’t object to a
person landing on it.”
“Of course not,” said Polly. “Besides, I don’t believe it belongs to
any one—except the town or the State of New York or some one like
that!”
“Guess we can find that out easy enough,” said Laurie, recovering
confidence. “Now, what’s the verdict? Think there’s anything in the
scheme?”
CHAPTER XV
ROMANCE AND MISS COMFORT
T hey parted from Brose Wilkins half an hour later. The work of
fixing up the Pequot Queen for Miss Comfort’s accommodation
seemed shorn of all difficulties. They were to start in the morning on
the gangway between boat and shore, Bob supplying the material
and Brose the tools. “Better get that up first,” said the latter, “so’s you
can get aboard without wading. You don’t need to bring much
material, fellers. There’s a pile of second-hand stuff over on our
wharf we can make use of. Don’t forget the spikes, though. I ain’t got
any spikes. Well, see you fellers again.”
Brose pushed off the launch with a foot, jumped nimbly aboard,
and waved a long, lean hand. And just then Laurie remembered
something.
“Hold on,” he called. “We haven’t paid you!”
“To-morrow,” said Brose. “It won’t be but seventy-five cents,
anyway; just the worth of that hawser. That tow ain’t going to cost
anything now I know who I done it for!”
The launch broke into sound and disappeared momentarily around
the stern of the Pequot Queen. When they saw it again Brose was
draped over the little engine, squirting oil.
I fear that Laurie begrudged Kewpie the two sessions of pitching-
practice that day. Certain it is that the afternoon session was
shortened to a scant thirty minutes, after which four boys set forth on
a shopping expedition, armed with a list that Laurie had made after
dinner. Still later they joined Polly and Mae at the shop. Progress
was reported and plans for the next day laid. Then Bob treated the
crowd, Kewpie virtuously choosing a ginger-ale.
To their disappointment, a light rain was falling that Thursday
morning when the four boys set forth for the Pequot Queen. Ned
trundled a wheelbarrow laden with lumber, and the others each
carried a couple of two-by fours or planks. Ned’s load also included a
paper bag of iron spikes, two hammers, and a hatchet. They chose
Ash Street in preference to the busier thoroughfares and, because
the lumber on the wheelbarrow was continually falling off and the
burdens on the boys’ shoulders required frequent shifting, their
progress was slow. The rain wasn’t hard, but it was steady, and Ned,
who had arisen in a depressed state of mind, grumbled alternately at
the weather and the wheelbarrow. They scarcely expected to find
Brose Wilkins on hand when they reached the boat, but there he was
awaiting them. Laurie introduced Ned and Kewpie, and work began.
By eleven o’clock a gangway led from the bank to the deck of the
Pequot Queen. Or, if you liked, you could call it a bridge. It was
twenty-six feet in length and thirty-two inches wide, and it was
supported midway by two posts which Brose had driven into the
sand. It was railed on each side so that, even in the dark, Miss
Comfort could traverse it safely. Later it was to be painted, the
planking green and the hand-rails white. At least, that was what
Brose said, and since Brose seemed to have taken command of
operations no one doubted the assertion. Ned and Kewpie, who had
been to Walnut Street on an errand, arrived just as the last plank
was laid, and the five drew up on the bank and admired the
gangway. Of course, as the material was all second-hand, the job
didn’t possess the fine appearance that new lumber lends. A stern
critic might even have sneered at the joinery, for Brose Wilkins
worked with speed rather than accuracy, and the gangway reminded
Laurie a little of Brose’s launch. But it was strong and practical, and
none of the admirers were inclined to be fastidious. On the contrary
the boys were loud in commendation, even Laurie and Bob, who had
wielded saw and hammer under Brose’s direction, praised the result
highly. Then they all walked along it to the deck and solemnly and
approvingly walked back again to the shore. As Bob said proudly, it
didn’t even creak.
They spent an hour clearing the boat of the worst of the dirt and
rubbish, preparatory to the more careful going over to follow in the
afternoon, and finally they parted from Brose and climbed the hill
again.
There was no pitching-practice that forenoon.
Shortly after half-past one they went to Mrs. Deane’s, reported
progress to Miss Comfort, borrowed two pails, a broom, a scrubbing-
brush, and a mop, and returned to the scene of their labors. Brose
was again ahead of them. He had taken down the smoke-stack and
was covering the hole in the roof with a piece of zinc sheeting. “I was
thinking,” he explained, “that she might want to use this place for
something, and there was a lot of water coming in around that old
funnel. After I paint around the edges of this it’ll be tight.” Brose
drove a last flat-headed nail and swung his legs over the side of the
boiler-room. “I was thinking that maybe she’d like to keep a few hens
in here.”
“Hens!” cried the quartet below in incredulous chorus.
Brose nodded. “Yeah, she was always fond of hens, Miss Pansy.
Used to have quite a lot of ’em until her fences got sort of bad and
they took to wandering into other folks’ yards. There wouldn’t be
much trouble here, I guess. They could go ashore and wander as
much as they pleased and not hurt anything.”
Ned broke into laughter. “Can’t you see Miss Comfort’s hens filing
ashore every morning with a big red rooster in the lead?”
“Sure,” agreed Brose. “Put up half a dozen nests and a couple of
roosts across here and you’d have a fine chicken-house. Anyhow, no
harm in stopping the leak.”
“I dare say she can use it for something, anyhow,” said Laurie.
“If it was me,” said Kewpie, “I’d keep ducks. Look at all the water
they’d have!”
For better than an hour dust flew from bow to stern on the Pequot
Queen, and the scrape of the scrubbing-brush and the slap of the
mop sounded from cabin, deck, and wheel-house. To introduce
water into the boiler room would have made matters only worse
there, for the floor and even the walls were black with coal-dust.
They cleaned out the fire-box and used the broom repeatedly and
closed the doors on the scene. But by four o’clock the rest of the
boat was thoroughly clean, and only sunlight and warmth were
needed to complete the work. The rather worn linoleum on the cabin
floor looked very different after Bob’s scrubbing brush and Kewpie’s
mop had got through with it. Even the paint in there had been won
back to a fair semblance of whiteness. By that time Polly and Mae,
released from school, had also arrived, and the Pequot Queen
resounded to eager voices. The rain had ceased and beyond the
hills westward the gray clouds were breaking when, carrying pails
and mop, broom and brush, the party of six went back to the shop in
merry mood.
It had been very hard to keep Miss Comfort away from her new
home thus far, and, since they wanted to have everything in shape
before she saw it, they didn’t recount to her all that had been
accomplished. “You see, ma’am,” said Laurie, “she was pretty dirty,
and—”
“But I’ll attend to the cleaning,” declared Miss Comfort eagerly.
“Land sakes, I don’t expect you boys to do that!”
“No, ma’am, well, now you take that hen—I mean boiler-room.
That wouldn’t be any sort of work for you.”
“But it doesn’t seem right to let you young folks do so much. Why,
just look at the boy’s shoes! They’re soaking wet!”
“Oh, Kewpie doesn’t mind that, Miss Comfort. Besides, I guess it’s
just outside that’s wet. Isn’t it, Kewpie?”
Kewpie moved his foot once or twice experimentally and obtained
a gentle squishing sound. He nodded. “That’s all,” he said.
“But,” resumed Laurie, “I guess we’ll have everything ready for you
by Saturday noon. I thought we might get the stove down that
morning and put it up. Then, maybe, on Monday you could move in!”
“You don’t think I could get settled Saturday?” pleaded Miss
Comfort. “I’d so love to spend Sunday in my—my new home.”
Laurie silently consulted the others and read assent. “Why, yes,
ma’am, I think we could have everything all ready by, say, half-past
ten or eleven.”
“That would be much nicer,” exclaimed Polly, “for then we could all
help get the things arranged.”
“Oh, thank you,” cried Miss Comfort gratefully. “To-morrow I’ll
engage Peter Brown to move my things Saturday morning. And to
think that it won’t be to the poor-farm! I told Mr. Grierson yesterday
about it. He’s one of the overseers, you know. He seemed—almost
—almost put out, and I thought for a moment he was going to insist
on my going to that place after all.” Miss Comfort laughed softly. “He
said he had been ‘counting on me.’”
“Yes, ma’am,” said Laurie, “you go ahead and arrange for the team
for Saturday at about ten thirty, and we’ll see that the place is all
ready, won’t we, Polly?”
“Yes, indeed, we will, Miss Comfort, even if we have to—to work
all night! Mae and I don’t have to go to school again for a week after
to-morrow, and we can do lots of things for you, I’m sure.”
“You’ve done so much already, my dear, all of you!” Miss Comfort
sighed, but it was a happy sigh. “I don’t know how to thank you, I’m
sure. It does seem as if—as if—” She faltered then, and before she
could continue Laurie got to his feet somewhat noisily and the others
followed suit.
“Got to go along,” he said hurriedly. “Change Kewpie’s feet—
shoes, I mean. Might take cold. See you in the morning, folks.”
Laurie made his escape, followed by the others, sighing relief.
Outside on the bricks, Kewpie’s shoes squished beautifully, but
Kewpie was frowning. “I like the old soul,” he announced, “but, say,
she’s awful leaky around the eyes!”
“So you’d be if you were seventy years old and folks were—were
kind to you and—and all that sort of thing,” replied Laurie gruffly and
vaguely. “Folks get that way when they’re old; sort of grateful and
tearful. They can’t help it, I guess!”