Michael is practicing hitting baseballs across the field. If the graph below represents the height of the ball t seconds after he hits it, estimate when the ball will land in the outfield to the nearest tenth.

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Michael is practicing hitting baseballs across the field. If the graph below represents the height of the ball t seconds after he hits it, estimate when the ball will land in the outfield to the nearest tenth.  

http://curriculum.kcdistancelearning.com/courses/ALG1x-HS-CA10/b/Exams/8HW2/8HW2_q10.bmp

anonymous · Answer

What you're looking at is a position vs time graph. So the ball will return to the ground when it has a height of 0. so, look at the second zero of the parabola (3.8 sec?)

umarsback · Answer

yeah i think its 3.8 or 3.9 seconds..

anonymous · Answer

cool

umarsback · Answer

thank you(: