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Carter Christensen

08/14/2022 · High School

Shooting a Free Throw If a person shoots a free throw from a position \(8 ft\) above the floor, then the path of the ball may be modeled by the parabola \(y = \frac { - 16 x ^ { 2 } } { 0.434 v ^ { 2 } } + 1.15 x + 8\) where \(v\) is the initial velocity of the ball in feet per second, as illustrated in the figure. (Source: Rist, C., "The Physics of Foul Shots," Discover.)

(a) If the basketball hoop is \(10 ft\) high and located \(15 ft\) away, what initial velocity \(v\) should the basketball have?

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\(\text { (a) } 23.32 ft \text { per sec }\)

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