A ball is placed in a machine that throws the ball up in the air. The table represents some points on the graph of a function that models the ball's distance from the ground with respect to the time since the ball ha

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s been thrown:

Time (seconds) | Distance (meters)
0 | 0
1 | 5
2 | 10
3 | 9
4 | 4
5 | 0

Based on the table, we can see that the ball reaches its highest point at 2 seconds, where it is 10 meters above the ground. The ball then starts to fall back down, reaching the ground again at 5 seconds. This suggests that the function modeling the ball's distance from the ground is a parabolic function that opens downwards.