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Use the function f(x) to answer the questions:

f(x) = 5x2 + 2x − 3

Part A: What are the x-intercepts of the graph of f(x)? Show your work. (2 points)

Part B: Is the vertex of the graph of f(x) going to be a maximum or a minimum? What are the coordinates of the vertex? Justify your answers and show your work. (3 points)

Part C: What are the steps you would use to graph f(x)? Justify that you can use the answers obtained in Part A and Part B to draw the graph. (5 points)

Part C: The values obtained in the part A and Part B are used for graphing the given function. Since the vertex is minimum, the parabola opens upwards.

How to calculate x-intercepts of a function?

The x-intercepts of a function or equation are obtained at y = 0.

Then, on substituting y = 0 in the function gives the x-coordinate i.e., the x-intercept.

How to calculate the coordinates of the vertex of a function?

To calculate the x coordinate of vertex(h, k), use the formula mentioned below:

h = -b/2a

When the function is in the form of ax² + bx + c.

Then, to calculate the y-coordinate of the vertex, substitute obtained h value in the place of x in the function.

Thus, the required coordinates of the vertex are obtained as (h, k).

Calculation:

It is given that,

f(x) = 5x² + 2x - 3

Part A: Finding the x-intercepts:

Substituting y = 0 i.e., f(x) = 0;

⇒ 5x² + 2x - 3 = 0

On simplifying/factorizing,

⇒ 5x² + 5x - 3x - 3 = 0

⇒ 5x(x + 1) - 3(x +1) = 0

⇒ (5x - 3)(x + 1) =0

∴ x = 3/5 or x = -1

Thus, the x-intercepts are (3/5, 0) and (-1, 0).

Part B: Finding the vertex of the given function:

We have h = -b/2a

From the given function 5x² + 2x - 3; a = 5, b = 2 and c = -3

So, h = -2/2(5) = -1/5 = -0.2

Then, on substituting h = x = -0.2 in the function we get

k = 5(-0.2)² + 2(-0.2) - 3

k = -3.2

Thus, the coordinates of the vertex are (h, k) = (-0.2, -3.2).

Since a > 0 i.e., 5 > 0, the vertex of the graph is going to be minimum and the graph of f(x) opens upwards.

Part C: Steps to graph f(X):

Step 1: Plot the x-intercepts in the coordinate plane

Step 2: Plot the vertex of the function

Step 3: draw a curve line passing through them, opening towards up.

Thus, the graph of the given function is plotted as shown below.

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