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Question

For an engineering contest, you have to create a container for an egg so that the container can be dropped from a height of 30 feet without breaking the egg.

a) The distance y (in feet) that the falls is given by the function y=16t^2 where t is the time (in seconds) the container has fallen. Graph the function.

b) The height y (in feet) of the dropped container is given by the function y=-16x^2+30 where t is the time (in seconds) since the container is dropped. Graph the function.

c) How are the graphs from part (a) and part (b) related? Explain how you can use each graph to find the number of seconds after which the container has fallen 10 feet.

I HAVE PART (A) AND PART (B), I JUST REALLY NEED PART (C)!

Answer 1

When the container has fallen 10 feet, it's height will be 20 feet, since it started at 30 feet. Both graphs should give the same time for those 2 values. The graphs are related because they describe the same activity.