Q.

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:

 

(i) The shape of the path traced shown is

1 parabola  
2 hyperbola  
3 ellipse  
4 circle  

Ans.

(1)

Shape of the path traced is a parabola.