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A person observing the tennis ball throw exclaimed, "that ball must have gone 18 feet in the air they wrote the equation

18= -16x2+16x+12 to represent the time in seconds it woulf take for the ball to reach 18 feet in the air

solve the equation 18= -16x2+16x+12 for x​

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Answer:

The masimum height of 144 feet is reached at 3 second. The ball is in the air for 6second.

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