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Consider the following descriptions of the vertical motion of an object subject only to the acceleration due to gravity. A payload is dropped at an elevation of 400 m400 \mathrm{~m} from a hot-air balloon that is descending at a rate of 10 m/s10 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}. Find the time when the object reaches its highest point. What is the height?

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The objective is to determine the highest point of the object.

Since the object is free falling, the time the object reaches the highest point would be at t=0t=0, at the beginning of the motion.

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