Sydney Harbor Bridge Parabola

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In the process of designing my model for the bridge in Part B, I used the sliders given to move the parabola as close to my Sydney Harbor Bridge. While in Part D, I used pencil and paper to find the equations for the bridge. Primarily, I believe my equation for Part D was much more accurate than Part B. This is because errors such as calibration errors occurred within Desmos. The sliders on Desmos were measured in a large-scale reading, making it less precise for the parabola to match the bridge. When doing the calculation by hand, I was able to zoom in on the picture on Desmos to get a small (detailed) reading for my equation of the parabola. The parabola for Part D fell along the bridge, whereas when doing it with Desmos at

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