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Suppose a pumpkin is fired straight upward from the barrel of a cannon at a point 20 feet above the ground, at a speed of 90 feet per second. If there were no gravitational force pulling the pumpkin back toward the ground then, 1. How high would the pumpkin be after 1 second?, 2. How high would the pumpkin be after 2 seconds? 3. How high would the pumpkin be after 10 seconds? and last question 4. What does the ''t" represent and what does "h(t)" represent?

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Answer: after 1 second the pumpkin will be 110 ft in the air. after 2 seconds it will be 200 ft in the seconds. after 10 seconds the pumpkin will be 920 ft in the air. t represents time and h(t) represents height per second.

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