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Explain why a quadratic equation is used to model problems involving finding a maximum or minimum.
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Coz linear ones ain't got no maxima nor minima xD
And the cubic ones, just too complicated, ain't nobody got time fo' dat!
because the second derivative is zero for linear equations....and the requirement for findin maximum and minimum is that the second derivative has to be non zero
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Cubics have a graph more like this:
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