The pythagorean sea, in southern antarctica has a depth that varies quadratically with its width. the width of the sea is 1000 meters. two hundred meters from shore, the depth is 20 meters. find the particular quadratic equation for the sea. compute the depth of the deepest portion of the sea.

Mrs. avila is buying a wallpaper border to go on all of her kitchen walls. she wants to buy 5 extra feet of wallpaper border than she needs to be sure she has enough. she buys 55.5 feet of the border. the store owner selling the border uses the width of mrs. avila's kitchen to determine that the length of her kitchen must be 14.5 feet.