SOLUTION: please help The height of a building is 1038 ft. How long would it take an object to fall to the ground from the top. Use the formula S= 16ft^2, where S is the distance, in fee

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The height of a building is 1038 ft. How long would it take an object to fall to the ground from the top. Use the formula S= 16ft^2, where S is the distance, in feet traveled by an object falling freely from rest in T seconds.

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The height of a building is 1038 ft. How long would it take an object to fall to the ground from the top. Use the formula S= 16T^2, where S is the distance, in feet traveled by an object falling freely from rest in T seconds.
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16T^2 = 1038
T^2 = 64.875
T = 8.0545 seconds
Cheers,
Stan H.