Warm up Solution

A toy car is placed on a ramp at the top of a track. When released, the car rolls down the track, jumps across a gap, lands on the track on the other side of a gap, and rides down a second ramp to come to a stop at a flat part of the track.

Sketch a graph to represent what the track might look like.

Note

Q: Describe the types of equations that are included in your sketch.
A: Part of a parabola (quadratic) and lines for the rest of the ramp and track.

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