Answer to Question #61852 in Physics for Blessed

Question

11. A basket ball player, 2.00 m tall, wants to make a goal 10 m from the basket as shown in the figure attached hereto. If he releases the ball at an angle of 45 degrees to the horizontal, at what initial velocity must he shoot the ball so that it goes through the hoop without striking the backboard?
a. 25 m/s
b. 10 m/s
c. 45 m/s
d. 100 m/s