Problem: an engineer designed a ball so that when it was dropped , it rose with each bounce exactly one - half as high as it had fallen . the engineer dropped the ball from a 32 - meter platform and caught it after it had traveled 46.5 meters . how many times did the ball bounce ?
Rationale: "going down = 32 m going up = 16 - - > total = 48 going down = 16 - - > total = 64 going up = 8 - - > total = 72 going down = 8 - - > total = 80 going up = 4 - - > total = 84 going down = 4 - - > total = 86 going up = 2 - - > total = 88 ( caught ) no of bounces = 4 answer : a"
annotated_formula: divide(divide(32, const_2), const_2)