A basketball will create a parabola in the air when thrown into a hoop. A parabola is the shape of a quadratic graph. Understanding this shape can be helpful to many types of sports athletes.

In this part you do not have to sketch the graph and you may even be given the sketch of the graph to start with. For a quadratic equation of the form \(y = k{(x - a)^2} + b\), the following ...