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What Is the Distance Formula?
Find the distance between two points on a coordinate plane. How is that done? Let's take a look at the distance formula. What's the distance formula? Well, it's a form of the Pythagorean Theorem. How? Watch the instructor diagram and...
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How Do You Graph the Parent Quadratic Function y=x2?
Watch this video to learn about the parent quadratic function. The instructor walks learners through this step-by-step process.
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What is the Minimum of a Quadratic Function?
What is the lowest point of a 'U' shaped parabola called? It's called the minimum of a quadratic function, also known as, the vertex.
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What is the Maximum of a Quadratic Function?
What is the highest point of an upside-down parabola called? It's called the maximum of a quadratic function, also known as, the vertex.
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How Do You Find the Zeros of a Quadratic Function on a Graph?
Find the zeros on a given graph of a quadratic equation. What does this mean? It means to find the values at which the parabola crosses the x-axis. It seems pretty straightforward to be able to look at a graph and identify the points at...
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How Do You Graph a Quadratic Equation with No Solution?
There are many ways to solve a quadratic equation. Let's check out how to solve a quadratic equation by graphing. But first, let's find the axis of symmetry and the vertex before making a table of values. Write the values as ordered...
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How Do You Solve a Word Problem Using an Absolute Value Inequality?
After reading this inequality word problem, young learners might just skip over it and not even make the attempt to solve it. It seems rather complicated. So watch this video as the teacher explains all that needs to be done to solve...
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What Does Undefined Slope Mean?
The graph of a line with an undefined slope is a vertical line. Why is it undefined? It has something to do with the value of the x-coordinate. The x-coordinate determines the run of the slope. So what if the run is zero? The instructor...
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How Do You Graph a Line If You're Given the Slope and a Single Point?
You have a slope and a given point and now you have to graph it. Begin by drawing a graph and then plotting the given point. Remember that slope is rise over run. So, from the given point move the appropriate spaces to plot the next...
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What's a Scatter Plot?
Scatter plots refer to a graph of given data. Scatter plots offer a way to look at information and allows the observer to analyze and interpret possible meanings and trends of the given data. Predictions can often be made based on the...
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What Does it Mean To Have No Correlation?
What does it mean when a scatter plot graph shows that there is no correlation? Does it have something to do with the slope of the line of fit? Yes, it certainly does have to do with the line of fit. If the slope of the line is zero,...
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How Do You Use X- and Y-Intercepts To Graph a Line In Standard Form?
Given a linear equation, find the x-intercept and the y-intercept to graph the line. Not sure what to do or where to start? Watch this video and see the instructor break it down and make it understandable.
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How Do You Graph a Horizontal Line?
Graph a horizontal line that goes through a given point by first plotting that point on a coordinate plane. Then draw a straight line left and right that goes through the point, and you're done!
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What Are Horizontal Lines?
When looking at the coordinate pairs for an horizontal line, all the y-values will be equal. Yes, the same, no matter what the x-value is. And the line will never cross the x-axis. Check out this tutorial video to see what that actually...
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Image Keys for Pictographs
Play this clip for your 1st or 2nd graders and they'll have no problem understanding how to read a pictograph. This clip is easy to follow and fully explains what an image key is and how it is used to read a pictograph. Great classroom...
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What is a Linear Equation?
Explore linear equations with this video about lines with equal signs! The instructor demonstrates linear equations in a variety of ways: writing examples, plugging in solutions, and graphing equations. This resource could act as an...
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How Do You Graph a Quadratic Equation in Intercept Form?
Watch this video and find out how to graph a quadratic equation when it's in intercept form! After going through the different forms of quadratic equations, an instructor leads viewers through an example problem. For the example problem,...
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How Do You Solve an OR Compound Inequality and Graph It On a Number Line?
Go over how to solve a compound inequality and graph it with this video. The video is clear and concise. A lecturer solves a compound inequality and graphs it on the spot, explaining each operation in detail. Great for in-class or...
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How Do You Solve and Graph a Two-Step Inequality?
Approach inequalities in a new way with this video! This video gives step-by-step instruction on how to solve a 2-step inequality and then graph the answer. Learners could use this video as a reference as they do homework, or you might...
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How Do You Solve a System of Inequalities by Graphing?
You've got a linear system of inequalities? You need to solve it by graphing? No sweat. Make sure that each equation is in slope-intercept form and then graph each equation. Is it a solid line or a dashed line? Which side of the line...
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What's a Boundary?
Are you graphing an inequality? What's that dashed line called? It's called a boundary line and it is the line that separates the coordinate plane into two separate half planes.
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How Do You Graph Ordered Pairs in Each Quadrant?
Draw a graph, label your units, make a table of your given coordinates. Now plot your points, label each point as you graph it. Next identify the quadrant that each point is in and add that to your table.
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How Do You Graph a Line If You're Given the Slope and a Single Point?
You have a slope and a given point and now you have to graph it. Begin by drawing a graph and then plotting the given point. Remember that slope is rise over run. So from the given point move the appropriate spaces to plot the next...
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How Do You Graph Points in the Coordinate Plane?
So you have an ordered pair and you want to graph it. Just remember that the first value is plotted along the x-axis and the second value in the pair is plotted along the y-axis. So count left or right, then up or down and you have...