Question

You (safely) bungee jump from a 200-feet tall bridge in your town. Your distance above the water's surface depends on the time since you jumped. Sketch a reasonable graph

Answer 1

any thoughts on the shape/y-intercept?

Answer 2

Well we would use the function
h(t) = 200 - 16t^2

Answer 3

good, and what would that look like? (since they only want "distance above water" I'd stop the graph as soon as it reaches 0)

Answer 4

good but that's just what the equation looks like in theory, in real life there are limitations on the domain/range

for example, time is always positive/zero so we only want positive x-values

Answer 5

so just move that left line over to the zero

Answer 6

sure

Answer 7

something like that

Answer 8

yeah that's fine, as a minor nit pick it should be a bit more like a parabola and not have that weird bulge

Answer 9

otherwise its fine