The total time in seconds the ball will take to travel before returning the ground is 2.25 seconds.
The breaking or breakdown of an entity (such as an integer, a matrices, or a polynomials) into a products of another unit, or factors, whose multiplication results in the original number, matrix, etc., is known as factorisation or factoring in mathematics.
Calculation for the time;
Let 't' be the time in second the ball will travel.
Let H(t) be the total height travelled by the ball.
The equation of the height is given as
[tex]H(t)=-16 t^{2}+36 t[/tex]
As soon as the ball will return to the ground the total height will become zero.
So, put equation of height equal to zero.
[tex]-16 t^{2}+36 t=0[/tex]
Factorise the above equation;
[tex]-16 t\left(t-\frac{9}{4}\right)=0[/tex]
Put each value equals to zero to get the value of time.
[tex]\begin{aligned}&t=0 \mathrm{sec} \\&t=9 / 4=2.25 \mathrm{sec}\end{aligned}[/tex]
As, time can not be zero
Therefore, the total time taken by the ball to return to the ground is 2.25 sec.
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