Let
be the height of the building and thus the initial height of the ball. The ball's altitude at time
is given by

where
is the acceleration due to gravity.
The ball reaches the ground when
after
. Solve for
:


so the building is about 16 m tall (keeping track of significant digits).
The original width was 94.71 cm
<span>The area decreased 33.1% </span>
<span>The equation for the final size is </span>
<span>2X^2 = 1.2 m^2 </span>
<span>X^2 - 0.6 m^2 </span>
<span>X^2 = 10000 * .6 cm </span>
<span>X = 77.46 cm (this is the width) </span>
<span>The length is 2 * 77.46 = 154.92 cm </span>
<span>The original length was 154.92 + 34.5 = 189.42 cm </span>
<span>The original width was 189.42 / 2 = 94.71 cm </span>
<span>The original area was 94.71 * 189.92 = 17939.9 cm^2 </span>
<span>The new area is 79.46 * 154.92 = 12000.1 cm^2 </span>
<span>The difference between the original and current area is 17939.9 - 12000.1 = 5939.86 cm^2 </span>
<span>The percentage the area decreased is 5939.86 ' 17939.9 = 33.1%</span>
6 is the answer I remember the answer from when I took this and it was easy