Jacob’s classroom is on the second floor of his high school building. he’s sitting at his desk and trying to solve a quadratic equation. every time he makes a mistake, he crumples a piece of paper and attempts to throw it in the trash can. one time, however, he accidentally throws the ball of paper out the window. the quadratic expression -16t2 − 8t + 24, where t is the time (in seconds), models the height (in feet) of the crumpled ball of paper after passing through the open window at t = 0. in the expression -16t2 − 8t + 24, what does the constant term represent?