An airplane traveling 1001 meters above the ocean at 35 m/s is to drop a box of supplies to shipwrecked victims below.

a. How many seconds before being directly overhead should the box be dropped?

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This is really all the same question
do horizontal d = u t) and vertical (h = (1/2) g t^2) problems separately.
the time, t is the same for each.
see
http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1386888436#1386888436.1386888818