Q: You are shot out of a cannon at the fair. The equation y=-1/5 * (x+2) (x-28) models your flight path, where y is the height above the ground and x is the horizontal distance. Which of the following statements in the comments are true?
a) You reach a maximum height of 45 feet,
b) You will land 11.2 feet from the cannon,
c) The barrel of the cannon is about 11 feet above the ground.
d)At a point 13 feet from the cannon, you begin to descend.
A: When y = 0, x = 28
y’ = 0 at x = 13 where Y is max = 15^2 / 5 = 45
Hence a is true, b is false, c is false, d is false .
The rectangle they give you is 12 units tall. This is the result of scaling by a factor of 1.5, ie it is 1.5 times taller than what the answer will be. Let the answer rectangle have a height of h. This means h*1.5 = 12, or 1.5h = 12
Divide both sides by 1.5 to find that h = 8. The answer rectangle's height is 8 units.
The width's will be treated in a similar manner. I picked on the height since it's easier to see that the height lines up with 12 (the width seems to be between 2 and 4, but its not clear if its at the midpoint).
