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THE COMPOUND // FIELD NOTES // WEEK 27

Parabolas, markups, and function arithmetic

Field Book
Lessons 100 to 103
Due
Test 24 due ยท Supplement 27
Method
Paper first, every step
The x squared family reports for graphing. Shift it, flip it, stretch it, and label the vertex before anything else.

What you have to be able to do

The procedures

Graphing parabolasField Book Lesson 100
  1. Start from y = x2. Adding inside shifts left, subtracting shifts right, adding outside lifts.
  2. A negative out front flips it over. Mark the vertex first, then two symmetric points.
Percent markupField Book Lesson 101
  1. Markup is a percent of the purchase price added to the purchase price.
  2. Selling price = purchase price times (1 + rate).
Function arithmeticField Book Lesson 102
  1. (f + g)(x) = f(x) + g(x), and products work the same way.
  2. Evaluate each piece separately, then combine.
Polynomial long divisionField Book Lesson 103
  1. Leave a column for every power, writing zero terms as placeholders.
  2. Divide, multiply, subtract, bring down: same rhythm as arithmetic.
Worked: a 30 percent markup
  1. A shop buys at 40 and marks up 30 percent.
  2. Selling price = 40(1 + 0.30) = 40 times 1.3.
  3. The tag reads 52.

Terms on the record

TermMeaning
parabolathe graph of the x squared family
vertexthe turning point of a parabola
markupa percent of the purchase price added on to set the selling price
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