On one play, a football team gained 9 yards. On the next play, the football team received a penalty
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For this case we have the following equation:
Where,
t: time
v: initial speed
s: initial height
Substituting values we have:
By the time the ball hits the ground we have:
From here, we clear the value of time:
Using the quadratic equation we have:
Doing the calculations we have:
Discarding the negative root, we have that the time is:
Answer:
it takes the ball to hit the floor about:
1.15 seconds