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A man stands on the roof of a 15.0 m tall building and throws a rock with a velocity of magnitude 30.0 m/s at an angle of 30° above the horizontal. Ignoring air resistance, how long will it take for the rock to reach the ground?
a. 0.79s
b. 0.5s
c. 3.86s
d. 2.0s
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