How do you describe the end behavior for $f(x)=-x^2-8x-15$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2018-01-13T15:18:44

See below.

For end behaviour of a polynomial, we only have to look at the leading coefficient and degree. In this case:

$-x^2$

as $x->-oo$ , $color(white)(888)-x^2->-oo$

as $x->oo$ , $color(white)(888)-x^2->-oo$

$x^2>0color(white)(888)$ for all $RRcolor(white)(888)$ , so $color(white)(8)-x^2<0$ for all $RR$

Since the coefficient of $x^2<0$ , the parabola is of the form:

$nnn$

GRAPH:

graph{y=-x^2-8x-15 [-10, 5, -5, 4]}

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