Question 340480: HOW DO I CREATE AN EQUATION to graph a parabola for a dish thats 300 feet in diameter and has a maximum depth of 38 feet? Answer by galactus(183) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Let the vertex of the parabola be at the origin and its axis along the x axis.
An equation would be
Where p is the distance from the center of the dish to the focus.
Since the point (38,150) lies on the parabola, we have
Equation can be represented by
