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 40.5 meters. How many times did the ball bounce?
Choose the correct choice from the following answers:
A) 3
B) 6
C) 7
D) 8
E) 9
Division of total distance travelled will be 16+16+8+0.5   3ns:3
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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 40.5 meters. How many times did the ball bounce?