Question

A cat falls out of a tree and takes 1.4 seconds to land safely on its paws on the ground how many meters did the cat fall ?

Answer 1

To solve this, we are going to use the distance of a free fallen object: $d=0.5gt^2$
where
$d$ is the distance 
$g$ is the gravity of the Earth $9.8m/s^2$
$t$ is the time in seconds 

We know form our problem that a cat falls out of a tree and takes 1.4 seconds to land, $t=1.4$. Lets replace that value in our formula to find $d$:
$d=0.5gt^2$
$d=0.5(9.8)(1.4)^2$
$d=9.604$ meters 

We can conclude that the cat fell a distance of 9.604 meters.