Question

Basketball and soccer are played with a spherical ball. Even though an athlete dribbles the ball in both sports, a basketball player uses his hands and a soccer player uses his feet. Usually, soccer is played outdoors on a large field and basketball is played indoor on a court made out of wood. The projectile (path traced) of soccer ball and basketball are in the form of parabola representing quadratic polynomial.

The graph of parabola opens upwards, if:

Options

• a = 0

• a < 0

• a > 0

• a ≥ 0

Answer 1

a > 0