You are walking around your neighborhood and you see a child on top of a roof of a building kick a soccer ball. The soccer ball is kicked at 35° from the edge of the building with an initial velocity of 17 m/s and lands 55 meters away from the wall. How tall, in meters, is the building that the child is standing on?

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You are walking around your neighborhood and you see a child on top of a roof of a building kick a soccer ball. The soccer ball is kicked at 35° from the edge of the building with an initial velocity of 17 m/s and lands 55 meters away from the wall. How tall, in meters, is the building that the child is standing on?

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