SOLUTION: A ball is dropped from 13.5ft, after each bounce the ball goes up by 60% of the previous bounce. How high will the ball go after the 38th bounce?
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Question 222445: A ball is dropped from 13.5ft, after each bounce the ball goes up by 60% of the previous bounce. How high will the ball go after the 38th bounce?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
After the first bounce, the ball will go up 
. After the second bounce, the ball will go up 60% of that, or \ \cdot\ 0.6)
. But that is the same as 
. Following the pattern, after the 38th bounce, the ball will go up:
feet
Works out to about 
. About half the thickness of a coarse black human hair.
John
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