SOLUTION: A window washer accidentally drops a bucket from the top of a 64-foot building. The height (h) of the bucket after t seconds is given by the following formula: h=-16t^2+64. How lon

Question 105585: A window washer accidentally drops a bucket from the top of a 64-foot building. The height (h) of the bucket after t seconds is given by the following formula: h=-16t^2+64. How long will it take for the bucket to hit the ground?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
At time t=0, the bucket is at a height of 64 feet,

At what time will the bucket hit the ground, that is, when is the height equal to zero?

Additive inverse of (64)

Multiplicative inverse of (-16)

In takes 2 seconds for the bucket to hit the ground.
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