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A baseball is propelled upward with a speed of 128 feet per second from a height of 4 feet. For how many seconds is the ball higher than 244 feet?

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The length of time a ball is in the air above a given height is found. The solution is detailed and well presented.

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g = 32 ft/s2, u = 128 f/s, h = ...

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