Finding Intercepts

**BostonBlaze** · April 21st 2008, 03:04 PM

The following problem has me stumped:

List the intercepts and test for symmetry for the following problem:

y^2 = x + 4

**Mathstud28** · April 21st 2008, 03:08 PM

Originally Posted by BostonBlaze

The following problem has me stumped:

List the intercepts and test for symmetry for the following problem:

y^2 = x + 4

$|y|=\sqrt{x+4}$ ...so for $|0|=\sqrt{4+x}$ which occurs at x=-4....after that to attain y intercept we first need to solve for y $|y|=\sqrt{4+x}\Rightarrow{y=\pm\sqrt{4+x}}$ ....so for $y(0)=\pm\sqrt{4+0}=\pm{2}$ ...and for symmetry...since it is NOT a function it is x-axis symmetric...it is not to either hte origin or the y-axis putting in $y(-x)$ will reveal that

**earboth** · April 22nd 2008, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by Mathstud28

$|y|=\sqrt{x+4}$ ...so for $|0|=\sqrt{4+x}$ which occurs at x=-4....after that to attain y intercept we first need to solve for y $|y|=\sqrt{4+x}\Rightarrow{y=\pm\sqrt{4+x}}$ ....so for $y(0)=\pm\sqrt{4+0}=\color{red}\pm{\bold{2}}$ ...and for symmetry...since it is NOT a function it is x-axis symmetric...it is not to either hte origin or the y-axis putting in $y(-x)$ will reveal that

Sorry, but there is a small typo.

**Isomorphism** · April 22nd 2008, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by BostonBlaze

The following problem has me stumped:

List the intercepts and test for symmetry for the following problem:

y^2 = x + 4

Have you tried plotting the graph? Do you know co-ordinate geometry ? Do you know what is a parabola?

**Mathstud28** · April 22nd 2008, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by earboth

Sorry, but there is a small typo.

THanks for catching that typo!

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