Equation: x2-15x+56=0

Business: Thneeds in Whoville

How to Solve by Factoring:
X2-15x+56
-152-4(1)(56)
225-224=1

15+√1 / 2(1) or 15-√1 / 2(1)

x= 8 or x= 7

Finding the Vertex: v= -b/2a

15/2(1)= 7.5
Then, plug in 7.5 into original equation
7.52-15(7.5)+56=-.25
Vertex= (7.5, -.25)

Explanation of Graph:
“Everybody needs a thneed” (the Once-ler). We started off our business in the city of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania and Whoville. Selling thneeds was a great idea considering that they are soft and
can do basically anything that you can possibly imagine. It can be a scarf, rag, hat, blanket,
towel, a very weird shirt, and a tissue. Every year our profits were heavily dropping at a very
high rate. Between our 7th and 8th year of our business we lost the most money that we ever lost.
Then, three years later we started sky rocketing and made a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
amount of money. Our business was making around 20 million dollars a day in the span of a long
7 years. We made so much money, we did not know what to do with it, so we gave it all to
Whoville to pay for the Christmas that was taken from them.