According to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records stuntman Dan Koko fell a distance of 332 feet into an airbag after jumping from the Vegas World Hotel and Casino. The distance d in feet traveled by a freefalling object in t seconds is given by the formula d = 16t 2. To the nearest tenth of a second, how long did the stuntman’s freefall last?
August 28, 2010
August 2, 2010
According to the 1998 Guiness book of World Records?
stuntman Dan Koko fell a distance of 314 feet into an airbag after jumping from the Vegas World Hotel and Casino. The distance d in feet traveled by a freefalling object in t seconds is given by the formula d = 16t^2. To the nearest tenth of a second, how long did the stuntman’s freefall last?
May 16, 2010
Math. word problem?
According to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records stuntman Dan Koko fell a distance of 343 feet into an airbag after jumping from the Vegas World Hotel and Casino. The distance d in feet traveled by a freefalling object in t seconds is given by the formula d = 16t 2. To the nearest tenth of a second, how long did the stuntman’s freefall last?
April 6, 2010
algebra, quadratic equations, word problem?
I don’t think I will ever be able to do these word problems (I asked about a different one earlier). I know these will probably be in my test, so I’m trying desparately to figure them out. This one is:
According to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records stuntman Dan Koko fell a distance of 325 feet into an airbag after jumping from the Vegas World Hotel and Casino. The distance d in feet traveled by a freefalling object in t seconds is given by the formula d = 16t^2. To the nearest tenth of a second, how long did the stuntman’s freefall last?
Select the correct answer.
6.2 seconds
4.5 seconds
5.6 seconds
6.0 seconds
none of these
January 12, 2010
i need help on this ty?
according to the 1998 Guinness Book of World Records stuntman Dan Koko fell a distance of 360 feet into an airbag after jumping from the Vegas World Hotel and Casino. The distance d in feet traveled by a freefalling object in t seconds is given by the formula d = 16t 2. To the nearest tenth of a second, how long did the stuntman’s freefall last?
answer.
A)4.7 seconds
B)6.9 seconds
C)6.2 seconds
D)5.8 seconds
E)none of these





