VOCAB

• Axis of Symmetry: a straight line for which every point on a given curve has corresponding to it another point such that the line connecting the two points is bisected by the given line.
• Exponential Growth: an increase that follows an exponential function.
• Discriminant: a relatively simple expression that determines some of the properties, as the nature of the roots, of a given equation or function.
• Exponential Decay: a decrease that follows an exponential function.
• Geometric Sequence: In mathematics, a geometric progression, also known as a geometric sequence, is a sequence of numbers where each term after the first is found by multiplying the previous one by a fixed non-zero number called the common ratio.
  
  

  Parabola: a plane curve formed by the intersection of a right circular cone with a plane parallel to a generator of the cone; the set of points in a plane that are equidistant from a fixed line and a fixed point in the same plane or in a parallel plane.

  
  

  Quadratic Formula: the formula for determining the roots of a quadratic equation from its coefficients.

  
  

  Roots: Also called nth root. a quantity that, when multiplied by itself a certain number of times, produces a given quantity: The number 2 is the square root of 4, the cube root of 8, and the fourth root of 16.

  
  

  Vertex: the highest point of something

  
  

  Zeros: the identity element of a group in which the operation is addition