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-A person at the top of a 600 foot tall building drops a yellow ball. The height of the yellow ball is given by the equation where is measured in feet and is the number of seconds since the yellow ball was dropped. A second person, in the same building but on a lower floor that is 408 feet from the ground, drops a white ball 3 seconds after the yellow ball was dropped. The height of the white ball is given by the equation where is measured in feet and is the number of seconds since the yellow ball was dropped. Find the time that the balls are the same distance above the ground and find this distance.
A) seconds; 404 feet
B) seconds; 500 feet
C) 3 seconds; 456 feet
D) 4 seconds; 344 feet
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