What is the least number of colors you need to correctly color in the sections of the pictures so that no two touching sections are the same color?

8 colors

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There should be at least 8 different colors available for coloring the sections. The one color is used to color all the small triangles on the upper most and lower most lines, then there will be required another color so that the edges does not matches with the previous color. For the bigger hexagon shapes in the center we will require different colors for all of them because all of the hexagon shapes touches a line and an edge with each other.

if the eqn of the parabola is f(x) = (x-4)(x+2), we need to mult. this out to find the coordinates of the vertex.

then f(x) = x^2 + 2x - 4x - 8, and f(x) = x^2 - 2x - 8.

one way in which you can find the vertex is to calculate x = -b / (2a).   here, that comes to

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x = = 1.   f(1) = 1^2 - 2(1) - 8 = - 9.   vertex is at (1, -9).

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find another point on the curve:   let x=0, for which y=-8.   then (0, -8) is on the curve.   plot the vertex and this point and draw a smooth parabola thru both.

hope this

25

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