SOLUTION: a pyrotechnician plans for two fireworks to explode together at the same height in the air. they travels at speeds shown at the right. firework b is launched 0.25 s before firework

Question 1012234: a pyrotechnician plans for two fireworks to explode together at the same height in the air. they travels at speeds shown at the right. firework b is launched 0.25 s before firework a. how many seconds after firework b launches will both fireworks explode
Firework A 220 ft/s
Firework B 200 ft/s
Answer by ValorousDawn(53) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
By the time firework a has been launched, firework b has already been launched for 0.25 seconds, so if we treat the two as equations, then

And we want to know when these two equal eachother, as that's they will both detonate.

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