Quadratic Polynomials. Real and Imaginary components

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MATHS IA                                                                                                             Alex Chen

PART A (Quadratic Polynomials)

The investigation is to find out if the zeros and to determine the real and imaginary components of the complex zeros of

.

From the function given,

The coordinates of the vertex is

by using  the Quadratic equation:

where

Hence,

has zeros

, and

By subbing in different numbers of

into the equation:

For:

, it is given that

, which is equal to

 

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:

 

For:

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:

 

After subbing different values for

and

From the above results,

by comparing with

, it can be seen that their values are opposite,

 have negative results,  

’s results are always a positive number or bigger than 0.

A graph of y1 and y2 is shown below when a= 3 and b=5,

We know that

has zeros

, while

 has opposite concavity to

,which is in the form

.

From the graph, it can be seen that,

is a reflection of

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