How do you find the slope of the parabola $y=ax^2+bx+c$ , where a, b, c, are constants?

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Answer 1 · 2018-01-26T15:19:11

$2ax+b$

I am assuming we are looking for the gradient function of $ax^2+bx+c$ algebraically:

$dy/dx(ax^2+bx+c)=2ax+b$

How do you find the slope of the parabola y=ax^2+bx+cy=ax^2+bx+c, where a, b, c, are constants?