Math 124 Section 2.6

1. What is the definition of a quadratic function?

2. In this definition, what are the variables?

3. What is the graph of a quadratic function called? What is its shape?

4. What are the important features of the graph of a quadratic function?

5. How do we find these important features? Does every quadratic function graph have all of
these features?

6. Thinking in terms of transformations of f (x) = x² , what is another way that we can write any
quadratic function?

7. How can we convert from the a‐b‐c form to the a‐h‐k form?