standard_description: Construct a function to model a linear relationship between two quantities. Determine the rate of change and initial value of the function from a description of a relationship or from two (x, y) values, including reading these from a table or from a graph. Interpret the rate of change and initial value of a linear function in terms of the situation it models, and in terms of its graph or a table of values.
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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