Christopher is walking down a road when he observes a nearby mountain that a boulder is fallinh, he notics that it took 1.30s for the boulder to fall the last third of its way to the ground. Determine the height of the mountain.

Christopher is walking down a road when he observes a nearby mountain that a boulder is fallinh, he notics that it took 1.30s for the boulder to fall the last third of its way to the ground. Determine the height of the mountain.

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