Our three consecutive odd numbers are x, x + 2 and x + 4.
Their sum is -51.
x + x + 2 + x + 4 = -51
You finish.
Y= 250000-8750t
3.5 percent of 250000 is 8750, if that’s the amount decreasing each (t) years, you multiply that number by number of years taken into account.
The equation of parabola is

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The canonical equation of parabola is

and this parabola has branches that go in positive direction of x-axis.
Since in your equation x is changed to y and y to x, then the <span>branches of the parabola go in positive y-axis direction, the vertex is placed at the origin.
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