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2-136.

On their Team Assessment, Raymond, Sarah, Hannah, and Aidan are given to change into graphing form. Raymond notices that the leading coefficient is a and not a . His team agrees on a way to start rewriting and they do Steps 1 through the same, but then they work in pairs and get two different solutions, shown below.

Raymond and Hannah

Aidan and Sarah

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

(4) 

(5) 

(5) 

(6) 

(6) 

Who is correct? Justify your answer by showing that graphing form of the correct equation is equivalent to the original equation.

Start with the end result each team gave and work backwards.
Which one leads back to the original equation?