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Documenting Quadratic Transformations for Technical Drafting Training

You are a training coordinator at Apex Drafting Solutions. To help prepare a standard reference guide for incoming junior technicians, you need to write a brief, clear explanation of how to transform and graph the quadratic function f(x)=(x5)2f(x) = (x-5)^2 starting from the baseline function f(x)=x2f(x) = x^2.

Write a short training guide that recalls the mathematical rules and steps required to perform this translation. Your guide must clearly address the following points:

  1. State the general standard form of a quadratic function with a horizontal shift, identifying the parameter representing the shift.
  2. Determine the value of the shift parameter hh by matching f(x)=(x5)2f(x) = (x-5)^2 to the standard form.
  3. State whether the value of hh is positive or negative, and recall the rule that determines whether a basic parabola shifts to the left or to the right based on the sign of hh.
  4. Specify the exact direction and the number of units the graph of f(x)=x2f(x) = x^2 must be shifted to obtain the graph of f(x)=(x5)2f(x) = (x-5)^2.
  5. Explain how this horizontal shift is applied to the individual coordinates (x, y) of the base function to construct the new graph.

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