Write an equation that gives the distance travelled by the falling object in the nth second (i.e., an). How many feet would an object fall in the tenth second?

Question

To prove that objects fall at the same rate, Galileo dropped two objects with different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy. The objects hit the ground at the same time. When an object is dropped from a tall building, it falls about 16 feet in the first second, 48 feet in the second, and 80 feet in the third second, regardless of its weight. Write an equation that gives the distance travelled by the falling object in the nth second (i.e., a_n). How many feet would an object fall in the tenth second?

Answer 1

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