Jacob’s classroom is on the second floor of his high school building. he’s sitting at his desk and trying to solve a quadratic equation. every time he makes a mistake, he crumples a piece of paper and attempts to throw it in the trash can. one time, however, he accidentally throws the ball of paper out the window. the quadratic expression -16t2 − 8t + 24, where t is the time (in seconds), models the height (in feet) of the crumpled ball of paper after passing through the open window at t = 0. in the expression -16t2 − 8t + 24, what does the constant term represent?

The constant term in the equation is 24.

This is the height of the paper passing through the window at t=0.

This can be proven by replacing t with 0 in the equation, anything multiplied by 0 equals 0, so when t = 0 the height would be 24.

So the paper is 24 feet above the ground.

question: how many people can she serve?

answer: she can serve 16.66666667 people. so she can only give 16 people a complete serving.

question: does she have enough ice cream for her guests?

answer: no. explanation: she only has enough for 16 people to have a full serving. however, she can give a 17th person a partial serving.

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