SOLUTION: Please provide detailed steps to solving the following word problem:
A ball is thrown upward with an intial velocity of 14 meters per second (mps) from a cliff that is 70 meters
Question 471488: Please provide detailed steps to solving the following word problem:
A ball is thrown upward with an intial velocity of 14 meters per second (mps) from a cliff that is 70 meters high. The height of the ball is given by the quadratic equation h = -4.9t^2 + 14t + 90 where h is in meters and t is the time in seconds since the ball was thrown. Find the time that the ball will be 20 meters from the ground...rounded to the nearest tenth of a second Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A ball is thrown upward with an initial velocity of 14 meters per second (mps)
from a cliff that is 70 meters high.
The height of the ball is given by the quadratic equation h = -4.9t^2 + 14t + 90
where h is in meters and t is the time in seconds since the ball was thrown.
Find the time that the ball will be 20 meters from the ground...rounded to the nearest tenth of a second
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Just take the given equation, replace h with 20 and you have:
-4.9t^2 + 14t + 90 = 20
arrange it into a quadratic equation
-4.9t^2 + 14t + 90 - 20 = 0
-4.9t^2 + 14t + 70 = 0
Use the quadratic formula to find t
In this equation x=t; a=-4.9; b=14; c=70
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Two solutions
t =
t = -2.6, obviously this is not the solution
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t =
t = 5.47 ~ 5.5 seconds it will be at 20 meter
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You can prove this to yourself, substitute 5.47 for t in the original equation and see that h ~ 20m
