Quadratic word problems (factored form)
Amir stands on a balcony and throws a ball to his dog, who is at ground level.
The ball's height (in meters above the ground), 2 seconds after Amir threw it is modeled by
h(x) = -(x + 1)(2 – 7)
What is the maximum height that the ball will reach?
In meters

Adj has a total of 1075 dance and rock songs on her system. the dance selection is 4 times the size of the rock selection. write a system of equations to represent the situation.

Atrain leaves little? rock, arkansas, and travels north at 90 kilometers per hour. another train leaves at the same time and travels south at 80 kilometers per hour. how long will it take before they are 680 kilometers? apart?

The management of a supermarket wants to adopt a new promotional policy of giving a free gift to every customer who spends more than a certain amount per visit at this supermarket. the expectation of the management is that after this promotional policy is advertised, the expenditures for all customers at this supermarket will be normally distributed with a mean of $95 and a standard deviation of $20. if the management wants to give free gifts to at most 10% of the customers, what should the amount be above which a customer would receive a free gift?