Medicine Balls Are Launched from the Floor to a Height

question 69

Essay

Medicine balls are launched from the floor to a height of six feet.They bounce, reaching x/10 the height of the previous bounce each time.The heavier the medicine ball, the smaller the value of x.Write a power series that gives the total distance that a medicine ball bounces as a function of x.What is the function that gives this Taylor polynomial?

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