Cal's go cart has a gas tank with the dimensions shown below. He uses a gas can that holds 111 liter of gas, to fill the go cart
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Check the picture below, that's just an example of a parabola opening upwards.
so the cost equation C(b), which is a quadratic with a positive leading term's coefficient, has the graph of a parabola like the one in the picture, so the cost goes down and down and down, reaches the vertex or namely the minimum, and then goes back up.
bearing in mind that the quantity will be on the x-axis and the cost amount is over the y-axis, what are the coordinates of the vertex of this parabola? namely, at what cost for how many bats?
Answer:
The interpolating polynomial is .
Step-by-step explanation:
We want to find a quadratic polynomial such that
,
and
. In order to do this let us write
.
Now, evaluating the polynomial in the points -1, 1 and 2 we get
This relations give us a linear system of equations:
where the ,
and
are the unknowns.
The augmented matrix of the system is
In this matrix it is easy to eliminate the 1's of the first column and get
From this matrix we can find the values of each unknown. Notice that the second row gives us that yields
.
Then, the third row means that gives
. So,
.
Finally, the first row is and substituting is
that yields
.
Therefore, the interpolating polynomial is
.