SOLUTION: Suppose Charlie O'Brien Of the Braves hits a baseball straight upward at 150 ft/sec from a height of 5ft. Use the formula to determine how long it takes the ball to return to earth

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Question 348691: Suppose Charlie O'Brien Of the Braves hits a baseball straight upward at 150 ft/sec from a height of 5ft. Use the formula to determine how long it takes the ball to return to earth?
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

is the height above ground.
At the height is ft
as it should be.
At sec
ft ( it's going up)
At sec
ft (still going up)
At sec
ft (it's coming down)
It's going to hit ground sometime after sec
Make (ground)

Solve using quadratic formula







You can finish

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