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2. the height of a baseball hit in the air is given by the graphed para…

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  1. the height of a baseball hit in the air is given by the graphed parabola below. fill in the blank, and then circle the feature the sentence is referring to.

a. the initial height of the ball when it was hit by the bat was ____ feet. (vertex / axis of symmetry / zero / or y-intercept ?)
b. the maximum height of the ball was approximately ____ feet. (vertex / axis of symmetry / zero / or y-intercept ?)
c. after ____ seconds the ball was at its maximum height. (vertex / axis of symmetry / zero / or y-intercept ?)
d. after approximately ____ seconds the ball hit the ground. (vertex / axis of symmetry / zero / or y-intercept ?)
graph: height (feet) vs time (seconds), parabola starting at (0, ~5), peaking around (2.5, 70), ending at (4, 0)

  1. identify the features of the following tabular quadratic functions.

table 1: x: -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; f(x): 0, 5, 8, 9, 8, 5, 0, 7
vertex:
axis of symmetry:
zeros (roots/x-intercepts):
y-intercept:
table 2: x: -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1; g(x): 14, 0, -10, -16, -18, -16, -10, 0
vertex:
axis of symmetry:
zeros (roots/x-intercepts):
y-intercept:
table 3: x: -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; h(x): -12, -5, 0, 3, 4, 3, 0, -5
vertex:
axis of symmetry:
zeros (roots/x-intercepts):
y-intercept:

Explanation:

Response
Problem 2
Part a

Step1: Identify initial height

Initial height is at \( t = 0 \) (time when hit), which is the \( y \)-intercept. From the graph, at \( x = 0 \) (time = 0), \( y \approx 5 \) feet.

Step2: Determine the feature

The \( y \)-intercept gives the value when \( x = 0 \), so the feature is \( y \)-intercept.

Step1: Find maximum height

Maximum height is the peak of the parabola, which is the vertex's \( y \)-coordinate. From the graph, the vertex's \( y \)-value is approximately 70 feet.

Step2: Determine the feature

The vertex is the highest point (for a downward - opening parabola), so the feature is vertex.

Step1: Find time at max height

The time at maximum height is the \( x \)-coordinate of the vertex. From the graph, the vertex is at \( x\approx2.25 \) (or around 2 - 2.5, more precisely around 2.25) seconds.

Step2: Determine the feature

The \( x \)-coordinate of the vertex gives the time of maximum height, and the vertex is the point of maximum, so the feature is vertex.

Answer:

5; \( y \)-intercept (circle \( y \)-intercept)

Part b