If you wanted, you could find the magnitude of this vector displacement with a value of 3.61 meters. You could also find the "direction" of this vector and say that it is 33.7° below the x-axis.

Translations parallel to the x-axis y = (x + a) 2 represents a translation parallel to the x -axis of the graph of y = x 2. If a is positive then the graph will translate to the left.

Translations parallel to the y-axis If f (x) = x 2, then f (x) + a = x 2 + a. Here we are adding a to the whole function. The addition of the value a represents a vertical translation in the graph.