# Building Quadratic Functions to Describe Situations (Part 1)

ID: karop-tupuv
Illustrative Mathematics, CC BY 4.0
Subject: Algebra, Algebra 2
Standards: HSF-BF.A.1HSF-BF.A.1.aHSF-IF.A.2

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# Building Quadratic Functions to Describe Situations (Part 1)

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##### Notice and Wonder: An Interesting Numerical Pattern

1) Study the table.

﻿$\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|} \hline \\[-1em] x & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] y & 0 & 16 & 64 & 144 & 256 & 400 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \end{array}$﻿

What do you notice? What do you wonder?

##### Falling from the Sky

A rock is dropped from the top floor of a 500-foot tall building. A camera captures the distance the rock traveled, in feet, after each second.

2) How far will the rock have fallen after 6 seconds?

Jada noticed that the distances fallen are all multiples of 16.

She wrote down:

﻿$\begin{array}{rcl} \\[-1em] 16 & = & 16 \cdot 1 \\[-1em] \\ \\[-1em] 64 & = & 16 \cdot 4 \\[-1em] \\ \\[-1em] 144 & = & 16 \cdot 9 \\[-1em] \\ \\[-1em] 256 & = & 16 \cdot 16 \\[-1em] \\ \\[-1em] 400 & = & 16 \cdot 25 \\[-1em] \end{array}$﻿

Then, she noticed that 1, 4, 9, 16, and 25 are ﻿$1^2,2^2,3^2,4^2$﻿ and ﻿$5^2$﻿.

4) Use Jada’s observations to predict the distance fallen after 7 seconds. (Assume the building is tall enough that an object dropped from the top of it will continue falling for at least 7 seconds.)

6) Write an equation for the function, with ﻿$d$﻿ representing the distance dropped after ﻿$t$﻿ seconds.

##### Galileo and Gravity

Galileo Galilei, an Italian scientist, and other medieval scholars studied the motion of free-falling objects. The law they discovered can be expressed by the equation ﻿$d=16 \cdot t^2$﻿, which gives the distance fallen in feet,﻿$d$﻿, as a function of time, ﻿$t$﻿, in seconds.

An object is dropped from a height of 576 feet.

7) How far does it fall in 0.5 seconds?

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To find out where the object is after the first few seconds after it was dropped, Elena and Diego created different tables.

﻿$\begin{array}{cc} \text{Elena's table:} & \text{Diego's table:} \\ \begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \\[-1em] \textbf{time (seconds)} & \textbf{distance fallen (feet)}\\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 0 & 0 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 1 & 16 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 2 & 64 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 3 & \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 4 & \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] t & \\[-1em] \\ \hline \end{array} & \begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \\[-1em] \textbf{time (seconds)} & \textbf{distance from the ground (feet)}\\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 0 & 576 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 1 & 560 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 2 & 512 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 3 & \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 4 & \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] t & \\[-1em] \\ \hline \end{array}\end{array}$﻿

8) How are the two tables alike?

9) How are they different?

Here is Elena's table.

﻿$\begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \\[-1em] \textbf{time (seconds)} & \textbf{distance fallen (feet)}\\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 0 & 0 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 1 & 16 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 2 & 64 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 3 & \text{Cell A} \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 4 & \text{Cell B} \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] t & \text{Cell C} \\[-1em] \\ \hline \end{array}$﻿

Determine the values that belong in the missing cells.

10) Cell A:

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11) Cell B:

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12) Cell C:

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Here is Diego's table.

﻿$\begin{array}{|c|c|} \hline \\[-1em] \textbf{time (seconds)} & \textbf{distance from the ground (feet)}\\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 0 & 576 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 1 & 560 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 2 & 512 \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 3 & \text{Cell A} \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] 4 & \text{Cell B} \\[-1em] \\ \hline \\[-1em] t & \text{Cell C} \\[-1em] \\ \hline \end{array}$﻿

Determine the values that belong in the missing cells.

14) Cell A:

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15) Cell B:

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16) Cell C:

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