6 ft |1 ft A solar collector for heating water is constructed with a sheet of 6 ft stainless steel that is formed into the shape of a parabola. The distance from one edge to the other is six feet. The vertical distance is 1 foot. View of the cross section: 1 ft -3,1) (3, 1) The water will flow through a pipe that is located at the focus of the parabola. At what distance is the pipe from the vertex of the parabola? (Hint: make the vertex (0, 0))

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Maximization

Have you ever seen a bridge in the shape of a parabola? Where is its maximum on the bridge? The maximum of that bridge is the highest point on that bridge. The process of finding the maximum of the bridge here is called the maximization.