A Rescue Airplane Is Diving at an Angle of 37º $\times$

question 50

Multiple Choice

A rescue airplane is diving at an angle of 37º below the horizontal with a speed of 250 m/s.It releases a survival package when it is at an altitude of 600 m.If air resistance is ignored,the horizontal distance of the point of impact from the plane at the moment of the package's release is

• A)2.80 \(\times\) 10³ m
• B)720 m
• C)6.80 \(\times\) 10³ m
• D)420 m
• E)5.50 \(\times\) 10³ m

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Definitions:

Returns To Scale

In production theory, the change in output resulting from a proportional change in all inputs; can be increasing, constant, or decreasing.

Input

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Decreasing Returns

A concept in economics where each additional unit of input results in a progressively smaller increase in output, often observed in production processes.

Marginal Product

The additional output that is produced by using one more unit of a particular input while holding other inputs constant.