Courtney is standing on a mountain above a lake, and she tosses a rock with a velocity of 48 ft/sec. Here is a table of values that represents the height of the rock, in feet.
Time (seconds) Height (feet)
0 140
1 160
2 140
3 90
4 10
This is a
function.
The maximum height of the rock is
160
feet.
The rock changes direction after
2
seconds in the air.
is the function exponential, liner, or quadratic
1 answer
The function is quadratic, as it does not have a constant rate of change like a linear function and it includes a squared term in the equation.
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