An acrobat was launched toward a water tank, with an upward velocity of 48 feet per second. the launch point was 32 feet below the water level in the tank. use the quadratic equation 0 = -16t2 + 48t – 32 to find how much time, t, it took for her to reach the water level in the tank.

Amira is painting a rectangular banner 2 1/4 yards wide. the banner will have a blue background. amira has enough paint to cover 1 1/2 square yards of the wall. the school colors are blue and yellow, so amira wants to add yellow rectangles on the left and right sides of the blue rectangle. the yellow rectangles will each be 3/4 yards wide and the same height as the blue rectangle. what will be the total area of the two yellow rectangles?