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A soccer ball is kicked toward the goal. The height of the ball is modeled by the function h(x) = -16t^2 + 48t where t equals the time in seconds and h(x) represents the height of the ball at time t seconds. What is the axis of symmetry and what does it represent?

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IM ALMOST DONE!! HELP PLEASE

A soccer ball is kicked toward the goal. The height of the ball is modeled by the function h(x) = -16t^2 + 48t where t equals the time in seconds and h(x) represents the height of the ball at time t seconds. What is the axis of symmetry and what does it represent?

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jdoe0001 · Answer

notice is a quadratic equation
thus a parabola graph
it  has a negative leading coefficient, meaning the parabola is going downwards
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