{"id":867,"date":"2020-05-02T01:31:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T01:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2020-05-05T20:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:03:08","slug":"quadratics-important-terminology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Quadratics &#8211; Important Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\">In order to get a grasp on quadratic relations, it is important to develop a thorough understanding of the parabola terminology.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\"><strong>Vertex.&nbsp; <\/strong>The vertex is the turning point of the parabola &#8211; essentially the \u201ctip\u201d of the curve.&nbsp; The vertex would be the bottom point of a parabola that opens upward and the top point of a parabola that opens downward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\"><strong>Optimum Value.&nbsp; <\/strong>Think of this as a fancy term for the y-value of the vertex.&nbsp; The optimum value would be the \u201cminimum\u201d y-value for a parabola that opens upward, and the optimum value would be the \u201cmaximum\u201d y-value for a parabola that opens downward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Optimization is finding the maximum or minimum value of a certain variable (the variable is the y-value in this case)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\"><strong>Zero(s).&nbsp; <\/strong>When people refer to the \u201czero(s)\u201d of a parabola, they\u2019re referring to its x-intercept(s).&nbsp; You can identify the zero(s) by finding the x-value(s) for which the y-value is 0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:17px\"><strong>Axis of Symmetry.&nbsp; <\/strong>A line of symmetry that divides the parabola in half, passing through the vertex.&nbsp; The Axis of Symmetry (or, as I like to call it, the AOS) is equidistant from the two zeros.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*If a parabola only has one zero, then the zero would also be the vertex and the AOS would simply pass through that point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to get a grasp on quadratic relations, it is super important to get a thorough understanding of the parabola terminology!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":899,"href":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kyjee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}