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Question 325792: Could you help me please? If a pro basketball player has a vertical leap of about 20 inches, what is his hang time? Use the hang-time function V=48T^2. His hang time is how many seconds? Need to simplify answer and use a integer or a decimal rounded to the nearest tenth. Thank you.
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First make certain that the hang time function relates vertical leap in inches to hang time in seconds. Given that, substitute 20 in place of the V, divide both sides by 48, and then take the positive square root of the result.


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