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Kazeer [188]
2 years ago
11

A certain ball is dropped from a height of x feet. It always bounces up to 2/3 x feet. Suppose the ball is dropped from 10 feet

and stopped exactly when it touches the ground after the 30th bounce. What is the total distance traveled by the ball? Express your answer in exponential notation
Mathematics
2 answers:
galben [10]2 years ago
8 0

Answer:

The total distance traveled by the ball is 60(1-(\frac{2}{3})^{31})-10

Step-by-step explanation:

It is given that a certain ball is dropped from a height of x feet. It always bounces up to 2/3 x feet. So, it will form a G.P..

The ball is dropped from 10 feet. So first term of the GP is 10. The second term of the GP is

a_2=\frac{2}{3}(10)

The required GP is

10,10\frac{2}{3},10(\frac{2}{3})^2,....

Common ratio of the GP is

r=\frac{2}{3}

The ball stopped exactly when it touches the ground after the 30th bounce.  

Since ball stopped after 30th bounce, so we need to find the sum of 31 terms.

The total distance traveled by the ball is

\text{Total distance}=2\times S_{31}-10

The formula for sum of n terms of a GP is

S_n=\frac{a(1-r^n}{(1-r)}

where, a is first term and r is common ratio.

S_{31}=\frac{10(1-(\frac{2}{3})^{31})}{(1-(\frac{2}{3}))}

S_{31}=\frac{10(1-(\frac{2}{3})^{31})}{\frac{1}{3}}

S_{31}=30(1-(\frac{2}{3})^{31})

The total distance traveled by the ball is

\text{Total distance}=2\times 30(1-(\frac{2}{3})^{31})-10

\text{Total distance}=60(1-(\frac{2}{3})^{31})-10

Therefore the total distance traveled by the ball is 60(1-(\frac{2}{3})^{31})-10.

galina1969 [7]2 years ago
7 0

Given that if a ball is dropped from x feet, it bounces up to 2/3 x feet.

And the ball is dropped from 10 feet, that is x=10 feet,

So,before the first bounce it travels 10 feet distance.

Between first and second bounce it travels  \frac{2}{3}* 10 + \frac{2}{3} * 10 = 20*(\frac{2}{3})

Between second and third bounce, it travels 20*(\frac{2}{3})^{2}

Between third and fourth bounce, it travels 20*(\frac{2}{3}) ^{3}

Like that between 29th and 30th bounce, it travels 20*(\frac{2}{3} )^{29}

Hence total distance traveled is

    10+20*(\frac{2}{3} )+20*(\frac{2}{3})^{2} + 20*(\frac{2}{3}) ^{3}+......+20*(\frac{2}{3})^{29}

=10+20[(\frac{2}{3}) +(\frac{2}{3}) ^{2} +(\frac{2}{3}) ^{3} +.....+(\frac{2}{3} )^{29} ]

= 10+20[\frac{\frac{2}{3}*(1-(\frac{2}{3})^{29})  }{1-\frac{2}{3} }]

= 10+20*2*(1-(\frac{2}{3}) ^{29})

= 49.9997 feet ≈ 50 feet approximately.

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