Suppose your car contains just one gallon of gas. Driving at 20 mi/h you can go 26 mi. Likewise, you can go 34 mi driving at 40 mi/h and 32 mi driving at 50 mi/h.
a. find a quadratic function that models this data
b. how far could you go if you drove at 65 mi/h
c. the nearest gas station is 16mi away. if the speed limit is 55mi/h, at what maximum speed could you drive and still reach it?
2007-09-03
07:00:59
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