SOLUTION: Here's the problem: The shape of the Gateway Arch of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri, resembles the graph of the function f(x)= -.00635x^2+ 4.00

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Question 143399: Here's the problem:
The shape of the Gateway Arch of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, Missouri, resembles the graph of the function f(x)= -.00635x^2+ 4.0005x-.007875, where x is in feet. Describe the shape of the Gateway arch.
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a second order (highest power is 2) equation with one variable is a parabola