how do i work out the following word problem. a particular ball retains half of its heght on each bounce when dropped from a height of 80 m. give the height of the ball on the fifth bounce after being dropped?(will the ball comes to rest?)

Answer 1

bounce - distance covered
1 ---- 80
2 --- 2(40) ....... twice, because it goes up and down
3 --- 2(20)
4 --- 2(10)
5 --- 2(5)

take it from there