SOLUTION: Suppose you are an event coordinator for a large performance theater. One of the hottest new Broadway musicals has started to tour and your city is the first stop on the tour. You

Question 395138: Suppose you are an event coordinator for a large performance theater. One of the hottest new Broadway musicals has started to tour and your city is the first stop on the tour. You need to supply information about projected ticket sales to the box office manager. The box office manager uses this information to anticipate staffing needs until the tickets sell out. You provide the manager with a quadratic equation that models the expected number of ticket sales for each day x. ( is the day tickets go on sale).

a. Does the graph of this equation open up or down? How did you determine this?

Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Depends if the x^2 coefficient is positive or negative. If it's positive, then it opens upward, and vice versa.
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