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Question 1121562: Your friend owns a garden restaurant wants you to design a parabolic arch for the entrance to his garden restaurant. He wants the highest point of the arch to be 12 ft from the ground. Then, he also specifies that at the height of 10 ft, the width of the arch is to be 8 ft. Compute for the width of the arch at the ground level.
Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! He wants the highest point of the arch to be 12 ft from the ground. Then, he also specifies that at the height of 10 ft, the width of the arch is to be 8 ft. Compute for the width of the arch at the ground level.
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Put the Origin at the vertex.
3 points on the parabola are (0,0), (-4,-2), (4,-2)
Find the equation of the parabola, then the intersections of the parabola and
y = -12
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