Math Question: Every year Newtown High School holds a water balloon competition during halftime of their homecoming game. Each contestant uses a catapult to launch a water balloon from the ground on the football field. This year you are the judge! You must decide which contestants win the prizes for Longest Distance and Highest Launch. Fortunately, you have a computer that will collect data for each throw. The computer uses to represent horizontal distance in yards from the goal line and to represent the height in yards. The announcer shouts, “Maggie Nanimos, you’re up first!” She runs down and places her catapult at the -yard line. After Maggie’s launch, the computer reports that the balloon traveled along the parabola represented by the quadratic equation y=-x(2)+17x-42. Then you hear, “Jen Erus, you’re next!” Jen runs down to the field, places her catapult at the goal line, and releases the balloon. The tracking computer reports the path of the balloon with the graph at right. The third contestant, Imp Ecable, accidentally launches the balloon before you are ready. The balloon launches, you hear a roar from the crowd, turn around, and…SPLAT! The balloon soaks you and your computer! You only have time to write down the following partial information about the balloon’s path before your computer fizzles:

Asked By Shabaa On 04/20/2020 15:05