SOLUTION: The height h in feet of an object after t seconds is given by the function h = �16t^2 + 30t + 10. How long will it take the object to hit the ground? Round your answer to the ne

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: The height h in feet of an object after t seconds is given by the function h = �16t^2 + 30t + 10. How long will it take the object to hit the ground? Round your answer to the nearest thousandth.

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Answer by Nate(3500) (Show Source):
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It depends, are you throwing the ball of a 10-foot building or are you throwing the ball onto the ground where you are 10 feet high.
If you are throwing the ball off a 10-foot building (which is likely the case):
We want the height to be zero.

Solved by pluggable solver: SOLVE quadratic equation with variable

Quadratic equation (in our case ) has the following solutons:

For these solutions to exist, the discriminant should not be a negative number.

First, we need to compute the discriminant : .

Discriminant d=1540 is greater than zero. That means that there are two solutions: .

Quadratic expression can be factored:

Again, the answer is: -0.288838554396786, 2.16383855439679. Here's your graph:

About: 2.16 seconds