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The ** Evergreen Fire Department ** has accused you of starting a fire on the other side of Bergen Peak. You have set off four rockets in the past few days and you know pieces of information about each of their flights. Unfortunately, you were not able to find all of the rockets you set off. The fire started 1,000 ft. (horizantal distance) from your launch pad which is behind the school. We also know that in order for your rocket to reach the other side of the mountain, it had to reach a height of 9,708 ft (that is how tall the mountain is). Finally, the elevation of Evergreen is approximately 7,200 ft. Use the information given for each of the rockets to prove that you didn’t start the fire.

You will need to turn in a report proving your innocence. This report will include your **prediction of where each of the rockets landed**, you will also need to include the **highest point that each rocket reached** during its flight. Finally, your report will need to include the **equation, graph, and table for each rockets path**. For our purposes the origin or (0,0) on your graph will be where your launch pad is. We are looking at this from the prospective of Evergreen (so in your report Evergreen is at 0 ft.) You will also need to know that the x axis represents the distance along the ground (in feet) and the y axis represents the height in the air (in feet). Pay attention to information that is given because not all of your rockets were launched from the launch pad. Use the links below to learn about the flights of each of your rockets.


 * Ares I ||  || Apollo ||   || Rocket Dog ||   || The Red Planet ||   ||