At a basketball game, members of the Spirit Club use a t-shirt cannon to launch team t-shirts to spectators in the stands.
The equation below describes the height, h, of the t-shirt, t seconds after it is shot from the cannon cfeet above the
ground, at an initial velocity of v.
h-162 + vt + c
1. Solve the equation for initial velocity, V.
2. The cannon launched a t-shirt from an initial height of 5 feet. After 3 seconds the shirt has reached a height of 131
feet. Use your equation from #1 to find the initial velocity of the t-shirt. Show your work.
3. What does the equation from #1 tell you about the value of the velocity, V, when t=0? Explain.