
Pathways to Math Literacy (Loose Leaf)
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Author: David Sobecki Professor, Brian A. Mercer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 4.3, Problem 1R
If you’re looking at a graph, what are some key things that will tell you that it might be a parabola?
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