Sabrino is walking down a road when he observes a nearby mountain that a boulder is falling, he notices that it took 1.30 seconds for the boulder to fall the last third of its way to the ground. So, in that situation, what is the height of the mountain?

Sabrino is walking down a road when he observes a nearby mountain that a boulder is falling, he notices that it took 1.30 seconds for the boulder to fall the last third of its way to the ground. So, in that situation, what is the height of the mountain?

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