kingston family practice keeps track of the number of people who visit the doctor throughout the course of the year with flu-like symptoms over the last few years they have noticed a pattern in the number of patients they see with these sypmtoms the equation below represents their finding where m is the month of the year
p(m)=(m-6)^2+13
which of the following best describes what the graph of their finding would look like? is it decreasing or increasing?
The equation given, p(m) = (m-6)^2+13, represents a parabolic function with its vertex at the point (6, 13). Since the coefficient of the square term is positive, the parabola opens upwards. This means that the graph of their findings would be increasing as the month of the year (m) increases.
Therefore, the number of people visiting the doctor with flu-like symptoms would be increasing throughout the course of the year according to their findings.