Thursday, February 3, 2011

Math Component - Problem



A cannonball is shot upward from the upper deck of a fort with an initial velocity of 192 feet per second.  The deck is 32 feet above the ground. 

Quadratic Model: _ h = -16t2+192t+32 _
1.     How high does the cannonball go? ___608 ft____ (Remember you are looking for a specific part of the vertex.)
2.     How long is the cannonball in the air? ___12 seconds___ (Remember you can use the quadratic formula.)

3 comments:

  1. Those are the answers I got. (: Mrs. Tyrpak told me to round to the nearest hundredths place, so you might want to change 12 to 12.16.

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  2. Thats exactly what I got, thats a relief :) Maybe you can include the steps as to how you got that?

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  3. Looks good, Marissa! You should add some work or steps of how you got the answer & everything. Other than that, everything looks really good!

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