standard_description: Observe using graphs and tables that a quantity increasing exponentially eventually exceeds a quantity increasing linearly, quadratically, or (more generally) as a polynomial function.
problem_activity: Below is a graph of the height of a toy rocket over time. This is modeled by a quadratic function.
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Describe the features of the function in terms of the intercepts, intervals where the function is increasing/decreasing, and intervals where the rate of change is constant/increasing/decreasing. Describe what each of these features means in the context of the problem.


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