document.write( "Question 1185115: a rubber ball is shot vertically to a height of 20ft and allowed to drop. each bounce is 80% as high as the previous bounce. what is the total distance the ball travels \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "It goes up 20 feet and then comes back down 20 feet. That's 40 feet for the\r\n" );
document.write( "first term. Then it goes up 16 feet and comes back down 16 feet. So that's 32\r\n" );
document.write( "feet for the second term.  We have an infinite geometric series with\r\n" );
document.write( "a₁ = 40 and r = 80% = 0.8\r\n" );
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document.write( "40+32+25.6+...\r\n" );
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document.write( " feet.\r\n" );
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