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Assuming the 440 Feet Is Accurate and You Neglect Air

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Assuming the 440 feet is accurate and you neglect air resistance, determine the accuracy of the following paragraph: MY JOURNEY BENEATH THE EARTH
Condensed from "A Wolverine is Eating My Leg"
Tim Cahill:
I am in Ellison's Cave, about to rappel down Incredible Pit, the second-deepest cave pit in the continental United States.The drop is 440 feet, about what you'd experience from the top of a 40-story building.If you took the shaft in a free fall, you'd accelerate to more than 100 miles an hour and then--about five seconds into the experience--you'd decelerate to zero.And die.


A) The time (about 5 seconds) is fairly accurate, but the speed (more than 100 mph) is not.
B) The speed (more than 100 mph) is fairly accurate, but the time (about 5 seconds) is not.
C) Both of the numbers are fairly accurate.
D) Neither of the numbers are fairly accurate

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