Homework Help: Physics

Posted by Catherine on Monday, November 1, 2010 at 7:31pm.

An Alaskan rescue plane drops a package of emergency rations to a stranded party of explorers. The plane is traveling horizontally at 40.0 m/s at a height of 100 m above the ground.
a) How far horizontally from the dropping point does the package strike the ground?
b)What are the x and y velocities before it hits the ground?

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