% of U.S. girls with major depression since 2004 Ashley YaffeWhy did you choose this topic? What makes you passionate about it?:I chose this topic because I was interested in learning how today’s society has had an impact on mental health of girls in the U.S. I wanted to see if social media and new technology in the society today has causedan increase in mental health in girls. I know that depression is a type of mental illness that can also lead into other mental illnesses that are much worse. The points resemble a ___quadratic_______ functionbecause: The line is not straight on the graph and the change in the points for f(x) is not increasing or decreasing by the same value. The x value is raised to the second power.What transformations did you make to the parent function? I divided x by 9 to make the function fatter and I multiply x by 1 to make the function skinnier. I added 20 to the function to move it up and subtracted 20 from the function to move it down.
