Paper airplane follows the path #y=-2x^2+20x+1# where y represents the height of the paper airplane in feet and x represents the seconds it has traveled. what is the time before the airplane will reach 15 feet?
1 Answer
May 10, 2016
15 is the value of y, so we will solve as we would a regular quadratic equation.
Explanation:
15 = -2x^2 + 20x + 1#
x =
Therefore, the paper airplane will be at 15 feet 0.757 seconds and 9.243 seconds after its launch.
Hopefully this helps!