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A rock is thrown upward from a bridge that is 38 feet above a road. The rock reaches its maximum h ...
A rock is thrown upward from a bridge that is 38 feet above a road. The rock reaches its maximum height above the road 0.99 seconds after it i thrown and contacts the road 2.63 seconds after it was thrown. Write a function f that determines the rock's height above the road (in feet) in terms of the number of seconds t since the rock was thrown. f(t)= Helpful Hints: (1). Draw a picture of f by hand. Recall that the axis of symmetry goes through the vertex. The zeros of f are both the same distance from the axis of symmetry. You can use this to find the second zero of f. (2). The function f can be written in factored form f(t)=c?(t?t1?)(t?t2?) for fixed numbers c,t1?, and t2?.