SOLUTION: An aquarium wants to install a new fish tank with a parabolic glass dome fitted at its bottom to allow visitors to look at the marine life from below. The glass dome will be 60 fee
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Question 1180206: An aquarium wants to install a new fish tank with a parabolic glass dome fitted at its bottom to allow visitors to look at the marine life from below. The glass dome will be 60 feet in diameter and will have a depth of 4 feet. Find the equation of the parabolic cross-section of the dome.
a. y^2=16/30x
b. y^2=4/15x
c. y=1/225x^2
d. y=15/14x^2
e. y=1/15x^2
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
standard equation of parabola
putting and in above equation we get
so, the parabola equation is
answer: c.
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