Samantha threw an apple out of a window from the tenth floor of her apartment building. the equation y = -16^2 + 120 can be used to represent the fruit's height above the ground, where t represents time, in seconds, after she threw the apple. how long did it take the apple to hit the ground? round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

Do some research and find a city that has experienced population growth. determine its population on january 1st of a certain year. write an exponential function to represent the city’s population, y, based on the number of years that pass, x after a period of exponential growth. describe the variables and numbers that you used in your equation.