A football player attempts to kick a football across a field. The path of the football can be modeled by the function h(x) = − 1
/225 x^2 + 2/3 x, where x is the horizontal distance from the kick, and h(x) is the height of the football above the ground, when both are measured in feet. How far from the kicker will the football land? Please Help Me!
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Answer:
t = 1.107
Step-by-step explanation:
Finding the solution using derivatives involves finding the lower zero of the quadratic that is the second derivative of the given function. That second derivative will be ...
f''(t) = 12(1.6714)t^2 -6(22.45)t +2(62.27)
= 20.0568t^2 -134.7t +124.54
= 20.0568(t -3.35796)² -101.619 . . . . rewrite to vertex form
Then f''(t) = 0 when ...
t ≈ 3.35796 -√(101.619/20.0568) ≈ 1.10706
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The solution is perhaps more easily found using a graphing calculator to find the peak of the first derivative. (See attached.) It tells us ...
t ≈ 1.107
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