What is the vertex form of y=-1/2x^2 -2x -3?

Find the gradient of f(x, y,z)equals=left parenthesis x squared plus y squared plus z squared right parenthesis superscript negative 1 divided by 2 baseline plus ln left parenthesis x right parenthesis x2+y2+z2−1/2+ln(xyz) at the point left parenthesis negative 2 comma 1 comma negative 2 right parenthesis(−2,1,−2).

2people are trying different phones to see which one has the better talk time. chatlong has an average of 18 hours with a standard deviation of 2 hours and talk-a-lot has an average of 20 hours with a standard deviation of 3. the two people who tested their phones both got 20 hours of use on their phones. for the z-scores i got 1 for the chatlong company and 0 for talk-a-lot. what is the percentile for each z-score?

Jason went to an arcade to play video games. he paid $2 for every 11 tokens he bought. he spent a total of $16 on tokens. which equation can be used to determine, t, the number lf tokens jason bought