Water flowing from a suspended garden hose to the ground follows a parabolic path, with the hose’s opening as the vertex. Suppose this opening is 15 feet high and that the water strikes the ground a horizontal distance of 7 feet from where the opening is located. At what height is the horizontal distance of the water 1 foot from the opening

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Maximization

Have you ever seen a bridge in the shape of a parabola? Where is its maximum on the bridge? The maximum of that bridge is the highest point on that bridge. The process of finding the maximum of the bridge here is called the maximization.