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OK, so what if the extra thing on
Standard Parabola Guy is inside some parentheses with the
x?
Like this guy:

First of all, is this thing still a
parabola?
Let's FOIL it:

What's going on with the graph of this
thing?

Here's the game I play on these:
I pretend that this
guy's goal in life is to be

That's all he wants!
What value of
x
will make him happy?

So, we start him ( i.e.
put the vertex ) over at
x
=
3 :
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moves
Standard Parabola Guy
over to
x
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