What is a categorical variable

It's a variable that deals with various labels, rather than the usual type of numeric variable you may be used to.

One example of a categorical variable is color. You could have red, green, blue, yellow, and orange as the five choices for your categorical variable. Each color is a label or category.

This is an example of a qualitative variable. We don't have any numeric data attached to color. They're simply names or labels. In contrast, a quantitative variable is something like a person's height since a number is attached here (more specifically its a continuous quantitative variable).

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step-by-step explanation:

let's cover over the formula of the vertex:

y = a(x – h)^2 + k

in this formula, (h,k) are the vertex, always remember that the positive or negative value of the vertex is based on the sign it has.

for example, if the vertex is -3,-6 then both the x and y value would have the positive sign attached to it and if it were a positive x and y value, then a negative sign would be attached to it.

with that being said, for our problem the x value is a positive one so we are looking for a number with a negative sign next to it, in this case the first and second choice.

however, for the first answer choice it isn't quite part of the formula so we know that the answer choice correctly displays the x value.

to confirm, we can see if the -1 fits correctly with the second answer choice, and as mentioned above a negative number will have a positive sign attached to it. so, for our problem we can see that -1 has been changed to +1, so we can confirm that the second answer choice is correct.

hence, our final answer is y=(x - 1)^2 + 1