Modelling real life parabolas such as bridge cables and basketball shots using quadratics in completed the square form.
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Great exercise that I did with my class to get them to think about real life curves.
Excellent ideas - thank you. I extended the last question by asking the class to find other equations that would model the trajectory of the basketball and generalise - ie equations of the form y = bx -ax^2 where b = 0.3 + 4a
Lovely examples of real-life applications of quadratics, thanks for sharing. (I'd have given 5 stars if there had been answers)
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