A coach draws up a play so a quarterback throws the football at the same time a receiver runs straight down the field. Suppose the quarterback throws the football at a speed of 20 ft/s and the receiver runs at a speed of 12 ft/s. At what angle x to the horizontal line must the quarterback throw the football in order for the receiver to catch it? Explain. No matter what amount of time (in seconds) t it takes to reach the receiver, the ball will travel (Round to two decimal places as needed. Do not include the degree symbol in your answer.) C... ft and the receiver will run ft. The of x is receiver 75 ft quarterback and the measure of the angle is
A coach draws up a play so a quarterback throws the football at the same time a receiver runs straight down the field. Suppose the quarterback throws the football at a speed of 20 ft/s and the receiver runs at a speed of 12 ft/s. At what angle x to the horizontal line must the quarterback throw the football in order for the receiver to catch it? Explain. No matter what amount of time (in seconds) t it takes to reach the receiver, the ball will travel (Round to two decimal places as needed. Do not include the degree symbol in your answer.) C... ft and the receiver will run ft. The of x is receiver 75 ft quarterback and the measure of the angle is
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Transcribed Image Text:A coach draws up a play so a quarterback throws the football at the same time a receiver runs straight down the field. Suppose the quarterback throws the football at
a speed of 20 ft/s and the receiver runs at a speed of 12 ft/s. At what angle x° to the horizontal line must the quarterback throw the football in order for the receiver to
catch it? Explain.
No matter what amount of time (in seconds) t it takes to reach the receiver, the ball will travel
(Round to two decimal places as needed. Do not include the degree symbol in your answer.)
ft and the receiver will run
ft. The
of x is
receiver
75 ft quarterback
and the measure of the angle is
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