Basketball and soccer are both played with a spherical ball. Although athletes dribble the ball in both sports, a basketball player uses their hands, while a soccer player uses their feet. of both the soccer ball and the basketball forms a parabola, representing a quadratic polynomial.

Based on the given information, answer the following questions:
(ii) For polynomial p(x) = ax² + bx + c, if the graph of the parabola opens upward, a will be
(2)
a will be positive if the graph of the parabola opens upwards, i.e., a > 0