Determine whether has a maximum or a minimum value and find that value.

First of all, recall that every parabola can be written as

If , the parabola is concave up (and thus it has a minimum value).

If , the parabola is concave down (and thus it has a maximum value).

So, in your case, the parabola in concave up.

The x-coordinate of the minimum can be found using

And the y-coordinate will be

So, the minimum value is -19/2 at x=1.

the one that has a slope of 1/2 and is positive.

step-by-step explanation: 2 buckets 1 trip ; 4 buckets 2 trips and so on.