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A baseball pitcher throws a ball horizontally under negligible air resistance. The ball falls 83cm in travelling 18.4 m to the home plate. Determine the ball's initial horizontal speed.

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  1. How much time does it take for anything to fall .83meters?
    That is the same time it took to travel the distance from the home plate.

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