Write the letter of the correct answer on your answer sheet. If your answer is not found among
the choices, write the correct answer.
For items 1-5, refer to the graph at the right.
____1. Which of the following could be the equation of the parabola?
A. = ( − 2)2 + 1 C. = ( + 1)2 + 2
B. = ( + 2)2 + 1 D. = ( − 1)2 + 2
____2. Determine the y- intercept of the graph?
A. = −5
C. = 5
B. = −3
D. = 3
____3. What is the range of the parabola?
A. {:≥1}
C. {:≥ -1}
B. {:≤1}
D. {:≤ -1}
____4. What is the axis of symmetry of the graph?
A. x = 2
C. y = 2
B. x = 1
D. y = 1
____5. What is the vertex of the parabola?
A. (-2, -1)
C. (2, 1)
B. (-2, 1)
D. (2, -1)
____6. Describe the graph of () = −2 + 6 − 24
A. Opens to the right
C. Opens to the left
B. Opens upward
D. Opens downward
____7. What is the y-intercept of the parabola defined by the equation = ( + 2)2?
A. -4
B. -2
C. 2
D. 4
____8. What is the minimum value of the graph of the quadratic function = 2 + 4?
A. -4
B. -2
C. 2
D. 4
____9. What is the vertex of the parabola having the equation y = (x – 3)2 + 1?
A. (3, -1)
B. (-1, 3)
C. (1, 3)
D. (3, 1)
____10. What is the vertex form of the equation =2−4+7?
A. =(−2)2−3
C. =(+2)2−3
B. =(−2)2+3
D. =(+2)2+3
____11. The equation of the axis of symmetry of the function = −22 + 5 is____.
A. x = 5
C. − 4
3
B. x= -2
D. 5
4
____12. Which of the following equations of parabola has a wider opening? A. y = 1
4
2
C. y = 3x2 B. y = 1
2
2
D. y = 5x2
____13. Determine the equation of the resulting graph when the parabola with the equation
y = x2 + 3, is shifted 4 units downward.
A. y = x2 – 4
C. y = x2 + 1
B. y = x2 – 1
D. y = x2 + 7
For items 14-15, refer to the graph at the right.
____14. Which of the following could be the equation of the parabola?
A. = −2 + 5
C. = 2
2
+ 5
B. = − 2
2
= 5
D. = 2 + 5
____15. What is the vertex of the parabola?
A. V(-5, 0)
C. V(0, 5)
B. V(0, -5)
D. V(5, 0)