Class Practice
Quiz 1 (selftimed)
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Fact Attack – Day 5
8 + 7 = 15
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Fact Attack – Day 5
9 + 7 = 16
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Fact Attack – Day 5
8 + 8 = 16
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Fact Attack – Day 5
9 + 8 = 17
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Fact Attack – Day 5
9 + 9 = 18
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Class Practice
Quiz 1 (selftimed)
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Practical Applications of Quadratic Equations
Max/Min problems
Quadratic functions/equations can be used to model mathematical problems
where you want to find a maximum or minimum value of a product of two
related numbers. These are commonly called max./min. problems.
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Practical Applications of Quadratic Equations
Max/Min problems
Quadratic functions/equations can be used to model mathematical problems where
you want to find a maximum or minimum value of a product of two related numbers.
Example
Farmer John has 50m of fencing to enclose a
rectangular area. What is the maximum area he can
enclose?
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Practical Applications of Quadratic Equations
Example
Farmer John has 50m of fencing to enclose a
rectangular area. What is the maximum area he can
enclose?
W
Answer
A = L x W
L = x
W = 25 – x
A = (x)(25 – x)
L
2L + 2W = 50
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Practical Applications of Quadratic Equations
Example
Farmer John has 50m of fencing to enclose a rectangular area. What is the maximum area he can enclose?
Max/Min problems
Let’s make a table
Answer
A = L x W of values
L = x
W = 25 – x
A = (x)(25 – x)
W
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Practical Applications of Quadratic Equations
Max/Min problems
Solving the problems is easy; we just find the vertex.
The difficult part is developing the correct equation. There
is no rule for this. To do so, you just need to use intuition
and common sense.
It will always be (some number something times x)(some
number + something times x)
(n ax)(m + bx)
AND PRACTICE!!!
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Practical Applications of Quadratic Equations
Max/Min problems
Example
An apple orchard has 20 trees per
acre. The average yield is 300 apples
per tree. It is estimated that for each
additional tree planted, the average
yield is reduced by 10 apples per tree.
How many trees per acre yields the
largest number of apples?
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Practical Applications of Quadratic Equations
Max/Min problems
Example
A car dealership can sell 20
cars/week at a profit of $2400 each.
The dealership has determined that
for every $300 increase in profit,
one less car is sold/week. What is
the maximum profit the dealership
can make? How many cars would
then be sold per week?
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The Rogers store in St. Vital Centre
makes $40 on every iPhone they
sell. Currently, they sell 50
iPhones/month. If they decrease
their profit margin by $2, they could
sell 5 more iPhones/month.
What is the best price for the
Rogers store to make the most
money?
How many phones will they sell
each month at this price?
If the current price customers pay is
$199, what will the new price be?
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Project/Assignment Due Date:
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The Churchill Bulldogs love their cookie fundraiser. This
year, they are selling cookies for $16/package. They
expect to sell 400 packages. Next year, they are thinking
about increasing the price. But they know that for every
$1 price increase, they will sell 20 fewer packages.
What is the price they should choose to make the most
money?
How many packages will they expect to sell.
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Tyler loves ducklings. He has decided to build a
duckling cage behind his house. His mom told him
he was allowed to use 8m of DuckGard™ Jr. fencing.
Tyler plans to use the side of the house as one side of
the cage and use DuckGard™ Jr. for the other 3 sides.
How many m2 is the biggest cage Tyler can build so
that he can have the largest possible number of
ducklings?
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Other uses of quadratic equations
• Sometimes, quadratic equations describe the
trajectory of flight (the actual path the object
travels). In these cases, the x variable
describes the horizontal motion of the object.
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A high school football player kicks off.
The ball travels 45 yards.
It reaches a maximum height of 4.2 yards.
Plot 3 points and find a regression curve to describe the path of the ball:
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A long jumper reaches a maximum height of 0.73m
before landing 6.8 meters away from the point where she
took off.
Plot 3 points and find a regression curve to describe the
path of the long jumper:
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