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While translations move the x and y intercepts of a base graph , stretches and shrinks effectively pull the base graph outward or compress the base graph inward , changing the overall dimensions of the base graph without altering its shape . The two studies reached similar conclusions about tundra growth using very different tools : One spied on a continent with weather satellites , while the other intercepted sunlight a few feet above the ground in the hills northeast of Nome . It very well may make the difference between a successful intercept of a warhead bound for a U.S. city and the deaths of countless Americans . It is unlikely that people in Al Jubayl could hear or see a Patriot intercept of a Scud missile that took place outside of Dhahran . Buckets finished the quarter with 20 points , punctuated by his intercepting of a pass and driving coast-to-coast for a slam putting the Wolves up 87-77 . A successful intercept of a long-range ballistic missile ultimately comes down to these ground-based interceptors , provided the system is able to detect and track an enemy missile in flight sufficiently . The Arrow II system , which could be ready for limited deployment as early as 1998 , achieved its first intercept of a missile target on August 20 , 1996 . In 1984 , that team achieves the first successful intercept of a missile with a supersonic hit-to-kill vehicle . And in October , the Pentagon described the system 's first intercept test a complete success , but later was forced to concede that the kill vehicle had drifted off course and locked onto a decoy balloon . This program explains how to identify , graph , and determine all intercepts of a polynomial function .