SOLUTION: A rubber ball is dropped onto a hard surface from a height of 6 feet, and it bounces up and down. At each bounce it rises 85% of the height from which it fell.
How high will the
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Question 1000316: A rubber ball is dropped onto a hard surface from a height of 6 feet, and it bounces up and down. At each bounce it rises 85% of the height from which it fell.
How high will the ball bounce on the 8th bounce?
Thanks very much.
Answer by ikleyn(52799) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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It is 6-th term of the geometric progression with the first term 0.85*6 ft and the common ratio of 0.85.
h(1) = 0.85*6 ft,
h(2) = *6 ft,
. . . . . . . . .
h(6) = *6 ft.
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