A Baseball Leaves the Bat with a Speed of 47

question 19

Multiple Choice

A baseball leaves the bat with a speed of 47 m/s and an angle of 45° above the horizontal.A 5.0-m-high fence is located at a horizontal distance of 137 m from the point where the ball is struck.Assuming the ball leaves the bat 1.0 m above ground level,by how much does the ball clear the fence?

• A)59.7 m
• B)47.7 m
• C)49.7 m
• D)121 m

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