SOLUTION: What distance will a golf ball travel if it is dropped from a height of 72 m, and if, after each fall, it rebounds 2/3 of the distance it fell?

Question 1165080: What distance will a golf ball travel if it is dropped from a height of 72 m, and if, after each fall, it rebounds 2/3 of the distance it fell?
Answer by ikleyn(52848) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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72 m plus doubled sum of the INFINITE geometric progression with the first term of  = 48 meters and the common ratio of  


    72 +   meters.


You do the rest.

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