Question

The flight of a cannonball toward a hill is described by the parabola y=2+0.12x- 0.0004x^2

Answer 1

The computation shows that the placw on the hill where the cannonball land is 3.75m.

How to illustrate the information?

To find where on the hill the cannonball lands

So 0.15x = 2 + 0.12x - 0.002x²

Taking the LHS expression to the right and rearranging we have:

-0.002x² + 0.12x -.0.15x + 2 = 0.

So we have -0.002x²- 0.03x + 2 = 0  

I'll multiply through by -1 so we have

0.002x² + 0.03x -2 = 0.

This is a quadratic equation with two solutions x1 = 25 and x2 = -40 since x cannot be negative x = 25.

The second solution y = 0.15 * 25 = 3.75

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Complete question:

The flight of a cannonball toward a hill is described by the parabola y = 2 + 0.12x - 0.002x 2 . the hill slopes upward along a path given by y = 0.15x. where on the hill does the cannonball land?