\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[hmargin=3cm,vmargin=2cm]{geometry} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{pgfplots} \begin{document} \begin{figure}[h!tbp] \centering \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ scale only axis, grid=major, grid style={dashed, gray!35}, axis lines=middle, inner axis line style={=>}, xlabel={\large $x$}, ylabel={\large $y$}, ytick={-3,-2,...,4}, xticklabel style={anchor=north west}, xtick={-3,-2,...,7}, ymin=-3.5, ymax=4.8, xmin=-3.5, xmax=7.6, ] \addplot[color=red,thick,samples=50] {0.5*x^2-2*x}; \addplot [only marks,fill=blue] coordinates {(0,0) (4,0)}; \addplot [only marks,fill=green] coordinates {(2,-2)}; \end{axis} \end{tikzpicture} \end{figure} \end{document}