Foods Likely to Cause Constipation: 1  Dried or dehydrated foods - These include dried fruits (prunes are an exception, they can help to ease constipation), beef jerky, and some types of potato chips. 2  Processed Foods. 3  Cheese. Milk and Dairy Products.  Red 1  Meat. Sweets - including pastries, candies, cakes, and other sugary foods.
Reflections in the coordinate plane: When you reflect a point across the x-axis, the x-coordinate remains the same, but the y-coordinate is transformed into its opposite (its sign is changed).
Notice that the graph stays above the x-axis. If you think of the y-axis as a mirror, then the right side of the graph is the same as the left hand side of the graph reflected across the y-axis. We see that the shape is a little like a smile. It is steeper far from the origin and less steep near the origin. We call this type of graph a parabola.