In this part you do not have to sketch the graph and you may even be given the sketch of the graph to start with. For a quadratic equation of the form \(y = k{(x - a)^2} + b\), the following diagram ...

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Charles K. Chui, Tian-Xiao He, Bivariate $C^1$ Quadratic Finite Elements and Vertex Splines, Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 54, No. 189 (Jan., 1990), pp. 169-187 ...