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person holds a 0.300 kg pomegranate at the top of a tower that is 96 m high Another person holds a 0.800 kg melon next to an open window 32 m up the tower which one would hit the ground first

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Well, for one thing, it could depend on which fruit is dropped first. You haven't mentioned that.

If they're both dropped at exactly the same time, then the melon at 32m hits the ground first.

It has nothing to do with their masses or weights. It's only a matter of which one has farther to fall. Even if it were a school-bus at 96m instead of a pomegranate, anything dropped from less than 96m would reach the ground in less time than the school-bus.

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