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in the box, complete the first 4 steps for graphing the quadratic function given. (use ^ on the keyboard to indicate an exponent.) then print a sheet of graph paper and graph the quadratic function to turn in to your teacher. be sure to label the axes and vertex.
y = -x^2 - 4x - 3

I'm not sure what method you are supposed to use to graph this. I would do it the following way although you can also change it to vertex form of the equation and graph it using (h,k) and "a".
The way I'd do it..

vertex (-b/2a , y)
-b/2a = -2
plug in this value for x to find the y coordinate.
-4 +8 -3 = 1
vertex (-2, 1)
the negative in front of the x^2 flips the parabola upside down

So you graph an upside down parabola at (-2,1). It's symmetrical, input easy to do points if needed like x=0 , x=-4