Internet Math Challenge

Deadline for solutions: Friday, 6 February 2004

A Problematic Parabola

A parabola opens downward and has its vertex on the line y = 2. It passes through the points (0,1) on the y-axis and (2,0) on the x-axis. If its vertex is the point (a,2), find the value of a.

Happy parabola hunting!


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