A 0.40 kg bead slides on a straight frictionless wire with a velocity of 3.50 cm/s to the right. The bead collides elastically with a larger 0.60 kg bead initially at rest. After the collision the smaller
bead moves to the left with a velocity of 0.70 cm/s. Find the distance the larger bead moves along
the wire in the first 5.0 s following the collision?||

First locate the turning point (vertex) of the graph. which is at the coordinates x=5 and y=9 or (5; 9).to determine whether it's a maximum or mininum value, you have to discern whether the vertex's y-value is the highest value or lowest value the graph can reach. since the vertex's y-value, 9 is the highest value the graph can reach, it will be a maximum.another basic way to determine whether the vertex's value is max or min is to see if the graph is smiling or sad. if it's smiling, the turning point/vertex would be a minimum, while a sad parabola would have a maximum y-value at the vertex.