The height of a basketball thrown by a 6 foot tall man follows a path defined by the function h(x)= -0.5x^2 + 3x + 6, where x is the horizontal distance from where it is thrown. How far away from the basket should the player stand in order for the ball to go in the basket (10 feet high) on its way down.

Raj encoded a secret phrase using matrix multiplication. using a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, and so on, he multiplied the clear text code for each letter by the matrix to get a matrix that represents the encoded text. the matrix representing the encoded text is . what is the secret phrase? determine the location of spaces after you decode the text. yummy is the corn the tomato is red the corn is yummy red is the tomato