QUADRATIC

EQUATIONS
Ax Bx C 0
2

DO NOW
A salesperson receives a base salary of
$35,000 per year and a commission of
10% of the total sales for the year.
a) Write a model to represent this situation.
Define your variables.
b) Graph your model.
c) If the salesperson sells $250,000 worth of
merchandise throughout the year, what
will his/her total income be for the year.
d) How much merchandise would the
salesperson have to sell in a year to earn
$100,000 total income?
e) Justify your answers to parts c & d
graphically.

THROWING A BASEBALL
Lolita loves baseball.
She is playing catch with her brother.

Can you determine how high will the ball go?

What does its maximum height depend on?

How hard she throws it

The angle at which she throws it

Can you determine how long will the ball be in the
air before her brother catches it?
What if he doesnt catch it, what will happen?

UND
ERS
TAN
SITU DING T
ATIO
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What type of path will the ball follow?

Draw a sketch.
Why is the path NOT linear?

THROWING A BASEBALL

Lolita is 4 tall and throws the ball with an

initial velocity of 32in/sec at an 86angle.
How high do you think the ball will go?
How long will it take the ball to hit the ground?

N
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T
C
I
PRED

THROWING A BASEBALL

SKETCH

A GRAP
H

This situation can be modeled by the

following quadratic equation:

h(t ) 16t 32t 48

2

Where h(t) is the height of the ball in

inches at any time t seconds after she
releases the ball.

Lets draw a sketch of

the graph.
What should it look like?

THROWING A BASEBALL
h(t ) 16t 2 32t 48
What is the initial height of the ball when Lolita throws it?
Does this make sense in the equation?

CREAT

E A TAB
LE

Lets find some values

How high will the ball be after second?
1 second?

1 seconds?

0.5

2 seconds?

2 seconds?

1.5

3 seconds?
3 seconds?
Graph those points
Does the graph make sense in our situation?

2
2.5
3

THROWING A BASEBALL
h(t ) 16t 2 32t 48

ANALYZ
E

What information can we gather from the table?

What does the point represent?
What does a height of 0 mean?
Do you see any pattern in the values?
What do you think this means?
SYMMETRY!

0
0.5
1

What do you think is the

maximum height the ball will reach?
Justify your reasoning.

1.5
2
2.5

48

THROWING A BASEBALL

h(t ) 16t 2 32t 48

CALCU
LATE

Although cannot be negative in our situation, from

the pattern we see, what other value would give a
height of 0 ft?
Justify your reasoning.
Does this make sense according to our graph?
How could you use the equation to mathematically
find the value of the ball when it has a height of
0ft?
(the time it takes for the ball to hit the ground)

THROWING A BASEBALL

h(t ) 16t 2 32t 48

INTERP

RET

Thinking about the symmetry seen in the table, how

could we use the two zeros you just found to find
the value at which the ball is at its maximum
height?
What does this value mean in context?
How could we use this value to find the maximum
height the ball will reach?
How can you find , the height, for ?
Justify your reasoning.

THROWING A BASEBALL
What is the initial height of the ball when it was
thrown?
Mathematical process: ______________________
What is the maximum height the ball will reach?
Mathematical process: ______________________
How long will it take the ball to reach its
maximum height?
Mathematical process: ______________________
When will the ball hit the ground?
Mathematical process: ______________________

SUMMARIZE

h(t ) 16t 2 32t 48

DO NOW

1)

FACTOR fully:

A ball is thrown up from 3 m above

the ground with an initial velocity of
14 m/s.
The formula: can be used to model this
situation, where is the height in
meters, is the initial velocity, and is
the initial position.
2)

a. Write an equation for the height of

the ball.
b. Find when the ball will hit the
ground.

DO NOW
1)

Solve:

2)

Imagine the path of a toy rocket after its

launched. It can be modeled byt he equation
where is the height of the rocket
in inches and is time in seconds.
a. Graph your model (use
Identify the domain & range.
b. What is the initial height of the rocket?
c. How high is the rocket after 2 seconds?
d. When will the rocket hit the ground?

EXTENSION
Imagine

the equation
represents the path of a toy rocket after its
launched, where is the height of the rocket
in inches and is time in seconds.
- Find when the rocket hits the ground
mathematically.
- Find how long the rocket will take to reach its
maximum height and what that maximum height is
mathematically.

DO NOW
1)

A diver is standing on a platform 24 ft.

above the pool. She jumps from
the platform
with an
initial velocity of 8 ft/s. Use the formula
where is the height above the water, is the initial
velocity, and is the initial position.
- How long will it take for her to hit the water?

2) You are trying to dunk a basketball. You need

to jump 2.5 ft. in the air to dunk the ball. The
height that your feet are above the ground is
given by the function
where is time in seconds.
- What is the maximum height your feet will reach?
- Will you be able to dunk the basketball?

VERTEX

The maximum or minimum point on a parabola is

called its VERTEX.

* Note: a quadratic equation has a maximum/minimum

value, but the vertex is always a POINT (x,y)!

Every quadratic equation has a vertex !

The vertex is always halfway between

the parabolas two zeros because of
symmetry.

AXIS OF SYMMETRY

The axis of symmetry passes

through the vertex and folds
the graph exactly in half. This
imaginary line is called its AXIS
OF SYMMETRY.

Every quadratic equation has

an axis of symmetry!

Any two points equidistant

from the axis of symmetry by a
horizontal line will have the
same y-value. These two points
are called REFLECTED POINTS.

WHAT QUADRATIC EQUATION IS

THIS?
The following represents the table
of a quadratic equation.
- Identify the axis of symmetry.
Justify your reasoning.
- Fill in the missing values.
- Identify three (3) sets of
reflected points.
- Use any 3 points to write a system
of equations for this scenario.
- Solve the system to write an
equation for this model.
- Use the equation to find the
vertex point.

y = ???

33

-12

673
673

253
253

-2

33

* Hint : what is the relationship

between a point and the graphs
equation?

WRITING THE EQUATION

System of equations:

y = ???

33

-12

673
673

253
253

-2

33

WRITING THE EQUATION

Write an equation for the graph below using

matrices.

* Hint: Find a 3rd point = a reflection of the given y-intercept.

WRITING THE EQUATION

Matrices:

YOU TRY IT
A

quadratic graph has two zeros at and .

The minimum value is
Write an equation for this function.

* Hint: Clear Fractions!

HOMEWORK (HONORS)
NUMBER THEORY There are 2 numbers. Twice the
smaller number is 23 more than the other number.
Twenty-five times the larger number is 62 less than
the product of the two numbers. What are these two
numbers?
EQUATIONS Use the two points
given on the graph below to write
an equation for the given
quadratic function.
pg. 234 #39, #51, #53
#39 also find max height
#53: roots = zeros

HOMEWORK
Write

a model for a quadratic

graph that has zeros at and
and whose maximum value is
8.
Graph that model.
How would the equation
change if the minimum value
were 8?
Write a model for the graph below. Write your
final answer in standard form: