SOLUTION: An object is dropped off the roof of a school that is 200 feet tall, to the nearest tenth of a second, about how long will it take the object to hit the ground?

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The formula for the time t in seconds that it takes 
a fairly heavy object (not a feather) to hit the 
ground if dropped from a height of h feet is: 







 seconds.

Edwin