College Algebra
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Author: James Stewart, Lothar Redlin, Saleem Watson
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Chapter 6.4, Problem 72E
The Arch of a Bridge The opening of a railway bridge over a roadway is in the shape of a parabola. A surveyor measures the heights of three points on the bridge, as shown in the figure. He wishes to find an equation of the form
- Use the surveyed points to set up a system of linear equations for the unknown coefficients a, b, and c.
- Solve the system using Cramer’s Rule.
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