SOLUTION: A baseball is hit off atee 2ft tall with a velosity of 3ft per sec. use h=-16t+vt+s to determine the time it well take to hit the ground

Question 121004: A baseball is hit off atee 2ft tall with a velosity of 3ft per sec. use h=-16t+vt+s to determine the time it well take to hit the ground
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A baseball is hit off atee 2ft tall with a velocity of 3 ft per sec. use h=-16t+vt+s to determine the time it well take to hit the ground
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That's a mighty slow baseball, 3ft/sec!!
Anyway
In our problem v = 3; s = 2, the ground (h) is 0, so we have:
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-16t^2 + 3t + 2 = 0
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Solve this using the quadratic formula a = -16; b = 3; c = 2:

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; minus a minus is a plus
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; we only need the positive solution here
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t = .459 sec or less than half a second
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YOu can check this by substituting .459 for t in the original equation
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