Question

In this threaded discussion, you will draw on the data you used to find the equation of a parabola for the path of a basketball in standard form. Respond to the following online. Share your findings, and look at the findings given by other students. Include the following in your response: How does changing each of a, b, and c in the equation y = ax2 + bx + c change the shape of the parabola? How would you have to change the equation to make the ball first hit the backboard and then fall through the net? Explain how another player could stand in the same spot, facing the same direction, throw the ball in that direction, but miss the basket.

Answer 1

since x^2 resolves into 2 factor (x-2)(x-4) for example, and then 2 roots, x = 2 and x = 4, where the quadratic curve crosses trhe x-axis, I would say that changing the a in ax^2 +bx+ c changes where it crosses the x-aXIS#