Respond to all of the questions within the topic (see that there are six questions below). 1. Explain how you can determine if the parabola opens up or down by simply examining the equation. 2. Give an example of a quadratic function with the given characteristics: its graph lies below the x-axis. 3. Explain how the number of solutions for a quadratic equation relates to the graph of the function. 4. Explain how you solve an equation by factoring. 5. In order to solve a quadratic equation by completing the square, what does the coefficient of the squared term need to be? If the coefficient is not equal to this, what does your first step need to be to complete the sqaure? 6. Explain how the discriminant can be used to determine the number of solutions a quadratic equation has.