SOLUTION: The height, in feet, of a rock,above the Colorado River that is thrown from the north rim of the Grand Canyon is given by Height = 5700 - 16t^2, where t is the number of seconds af

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: The height, in feet, of a rock,above the Colorado River that is thrown from the north rim of the Grand Canyon is given by Height = 5700 - 16t^2, where t is the number of seconds after the rock above the river 5 seconds after it is released. This question is from textbook Applied College Algebra

Answer by Earlsdon(6294) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It seems as though you might have missed part of the problem statement.
Do you have to find the height of the rock 5 seconds after it is dropped from the North Rim at a height of 5700 feet? Using the given function:
Substitute t = 5 and solve for h.

feet.
The height of the rock would be 5300 feet five seconds after it was dropped from a height of 5700 feet.

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