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 16-meter platform and caught it after it had traveled 44.5 meters. How many times did the ball bounce?
Choose the correct choice from the following answers:  A) 4  B) 6  C) 7  D) 8  E) 9
Division of total diatance travelled will be 16+16+8+4+0.5   4ns: 4
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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 16-meter platform and caught it after it had traveled 44.5 meters. How many times did the ball bounce?