A Golfer Drives Her Ball from the Tee Down the Fairway

question 42

Multiple Choice

A golfer drives her ball from the tee down the fairway in a high arcing shot.When the ball is at the highest point of its flight,

• A)its velocity and acceleration are both zero.
• B)its velocity is zero but its acceleration is nonzero.
• C)its velocity is nonzero but its acceleration is zero.
• D)its velocity and acceleration are both nonzero.
• E)Insufficient information is given to answer correctly.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a dataset, representing the average distance between each data point and the mean.

Sample Mean

The average of all the data points in a sample taken from a population.

Probability Sampling

A sampling method in which every member of the population has a known, non-zero chance of being selected, ensuring representativeness and allowing for the calculation of sampling error.

Systematic Sampling

A probability sampling method in which we randomly select one of the first k elements and then select every kth element thereafter.