Find the vertex, focus, and directrix of the parabola and sketch its graph. Use a graphing utility to verify your graph. y2 − 4x − 24 = 0

Among the most famous of all meteor showers are the perseids, which occur each year in early august. in some areas the frequency of visible perseids can be as high as 40 per hour. given that such sightings are poisson events, calculate the probability that an observer who has just seen a meteor will have to wait at least five minutes before seeing another.