SOLUTION: A roofer thows a group of shingles into the trash bin on the ground below. The height of the shingles can be modeled by the function h(t)= -5t^2+11t+12 where h(t) is the height in

Question 1158571: A roofer thows a group of shingles into the trash bin on the ground below. The height of the shingles can be modeled by the function h(t)= -5t^2+11t+12 where h(t) is the height in meters and t is the time in seconds
a) how long will it take the shingles to hit the bottom of the trash?
b) Determine the maximum height of the shingles?
Thank you
Answer by Shin123(626) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Solved by pluggable solver: Completing the Square for Quadratics

To complete the square for the quadratic , we must first find a square which when expanded, has -5x² and 11x in it.
Factoring -5 from the left side gives . is the square we are looking for. So we get . Taking the -3.61 out of the -5, we get . Subtracting 18.05 from both sides, we get . Since the right side is negative, there are no real solutions.

Since time can't be negative, it takes 3 seconds for the shingles to hit the trash. The maximum value occurs when is 0. This happens when x=1.1. The maximum height is 18.05 meters and it occurs after 1.1 seconds has passed.
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