Can someone please help me with the following question.
1) The weight of an object above Earth can be modeled by a function of the form w(h)=(r/r+h)^2*"w , where r is the radius of Earth
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(approximately 3950 miles)," h" is the distance above Earth's surface, and
"w is the weight of the object on the surface of the Earth.
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a) At what height will a 150-pound object weigh 50 pounds?
I used the following:"w = 150 w(h)= 50 r=3950
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So I plugged these values into the equation given:
50=(3950/3950 + h)^2*150
and my answer was h= 7900
b) How high would a crow carrying a whelk haveto fly for the whelk's weight to change by 0.1%?
Don't know how you got 7900.
50=(3950/3950 + h)^2*150
transpose and square root
(3950+h)/3950 = sqrt(150/50)
h=6842-3950=2892 (miles)
Similarly for the crow:
(3950+h)/3950)=sqrt(1.001/1.000)
h=1.97 miles