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Posted by Unknown on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 12:31pm.

A ball is thrown horizontally from a cliff at a speed of 15 m/s and strikes the ground 45 meters from the base of the cliff. How high was the cliff (rounded to the nearest meter)

Physic - Steve, Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at 1:07pm
it took the ball 45/15=3 seconds to travel 45 m horizontally

In those 3 seconds, it fell 4.9*3^2 = 44.1m, the height of the cliff

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