Question

Explain why a quadratic equation is used to model problems involving finding a maximum or minimum.

Answer 1

Coz linear ones ain't got no maxima nor minima xD

Answer 2

And the cubic ones, just too complicated, ain't nobody got time fo' dat!

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

Cubics have a graph more like this: