Ally dropped a stone from the top of a cliff. the height of the stone throughout its flight is shown below.

select the most appropriate unit to measure the amount of time that the stone remains in the air.

seconds
minutes
milliseconds
hours

Seconds

Step-by-step explanation:

This situation can be modeled using the vertical motion model, which is

y = -16t² + v₀t + h₀,

where t is the time in seconds, v₀ is the original velocity and h₀ is the original height.

The reason this is seconds is because it does not take long for an object thrown through the air or dropped from a cliff to fall; it would not take minutes or hours, but would take seconds.