SOLUTION: Please helppp!! A) could more than one parábola pass through three given points? Give reasons for your answer. B) explain how to pick three points for which no parabola passes t

Question 1138318: Please helppp!!
A) could more than one parábola pass through three given points? Give reasons for your answer.
B) explain how to pick three points for which no parabola passes through all of them.
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A)
reason:
Parabola is defined by parameters, ,,.
points give you equations to find parameters, ,,
thus, the set of equations either has solution or at all

B) pick three points; no parabola passes through all of them
(recall: parabola goes through three points)
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