A football player tosses the ball through the air to a teammate. Could the path of the ball be described by the equation y=0.5x2(squared) + 0.3x + 2?

No, the path of the ball cannot be described by the equation

  because x is negative.

Step-by-step explanation:

The graph of a quadratic equation can be expressed by the equation:

where;

a, b and c indicates the real numbers and the parabola is illustrated when a ≠ 0

The parabola is said to be a curve from the graph in which any point is equal to the distance from a fixed point and a fixed straight line.

Now; when a football player tosses the ball through the air; the parabolic curve moves through the negative x axis  and passes through the positive y axis to the positive x axis.

Therefore; the path of the ball cannot be described by the equation

  because x is negative.

2(2+1)^2-23

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