Given the following quadratic equation, determine if it has a maximum or a minimum ..

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Given the following quadratic equation, determine if it has a maximum or a minimum value. Then find the maximum or minimum value. Please show all of your work.
f(x)=x^2+2
 
On a graph, where would the function never go below? If the function is \(\displaystyle x^2+2\), then it would go up the farther you go out on the x axis. So, moving backward, you go into negative numbers. A negative number squared is positive. Basically, think of the graph of y=x2, shifted up 2. Where the lowest point is is your answer.
 
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