I think you need to solve them
"Acceleration" does NOT mean speeding up. It also doesn't mean
slowing down. Acceleration means ANY change in the speed
OR DIRECTION of motion.
The only kind of motion that's NOT accelerated is motion at a steady
speed AND in a straight line.
Even when your speed is steady, you're accelerating if your direction
is changing.
A few examples:
(no speeds are changing):
-- driving on a curved road, or turning a corner
-- going around a curve on a skateboard, a bike, or a Segway
-- running on a quarter-mile track
-- an Indy car cruising a practice lap around the track
-- water spinning, getting ready to go down the drain
-- any point on the blade of a fan
-- the little ball going around the inside of a Roulette wheel
-- the Moon in its orbit around the Earth
-- the Earth in its orbit around the sun
The only information you would need to decide if the can will float is the density of the can, which requires knowing the mass and volume. If the density of the can is less than one, the can will float. if it is greater than one, it will not float, as water's density is one.
Y₀ = initial position of the balloon at the top of the building = 44 m
Y = final position of the balloon at halfway down the building = 44/2 = 22 m
a = acceleration of the balloon = - 9.8 m/s²
v₀ = initial velocity of the balloon = 0 m/s
v = final velocity of the balloon = ?
using the kinematics equation
v² = v₀² + 2 a (Y - Y₀)
inserting the values
v² = 0² + 2 (- 9.8) (22 - 44)
v = 20.78 m/s
