SOLUTION: The formula h=120t-16t2 gives the height of h in feet of an object t seconds after it is shot upward from earths surface with an initial velocity of 120 feet per second. What will

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Question 772272: The formula h=120t-16t2 gives the height of h in feet of an object t seconds after it is shot upward from earths surface with an initial velocity of 120 feet per second. What will the height of the object be after 6 seconds
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Write out . Erase each . Replace each erased with . Do the indicated arithmetic. That is the easy part of the question. The hard part is: At 6 seconds, is the object still on its way up, or has it started back down?

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