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A ball is dropped from 64 feet assume that on each bounce it rebounds one half of the distance of the previous bounce after how many bounces will the ball be at 0.125 feet at this point what is the total distance the ball traveled in inches

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the ball bounced a total of 9 times to find that answer you divide 64 by 2 and that (32 feet ) is one bounce then repeat till you get .125

so if you add each of the bounce heights you get 127.875 the total distance
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