Practice problem

The Quadratic Formula - Defintion & Examples

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Alex Federspiel
Jonathan Heller
Anusha Rahman
Trisha

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 comes out soon and we here at Expii are excited. In honor of this, I decided to see how far I could throw a physical Blu-ray copy of Guardians of the Galaxy.

Using state of the art technology and definitely not just made up in order to shoehorn pop culture into the problem, I found that the Blu-ray followed the path of the quadratic equation $y=-\frac{1}{10}x^2+2x$ , where $x$ is the distance in feet.

Using the quadratic formula, determine how far the Blu-ray went.