My readers did it again! They submitted 28 entries of ways to visualize the table in Figure 1. This part of the Graph Makeover Contest was much more challenging than the redesign of the donut ...

Completing quadratic graphs Example Complete the table for the equation y = x 2 4 x + 3 and draw its graph for values of x from –2 to 5.

To draw this graph, we need to think of the values in this table as coordinates. So the first point will have coordinates (-2, 1), the second will have coordinates (-1, 2) etc.

This example also illustrates default pattern behavior with maps and explicit placement of the legend on the graph. It shows how the default solid map pattern rotates through every color in a colors ...