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= Kingdom Centre = Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

**Interesting Facts**
 * The large opening is illuminated at night in continuously changing colors.
 * It is 300 meters (984 feet) tall, the same height as the Eiffel Tower.
 * Kingdom Centre is owned by Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, a prince of the Saudi royal family.

In the city of Riydah, Saudi Arabia is a skyscraper called the Kingdom Centre, also know as Al Mamlaka Tower. At 992 feet high it is the second tallest skyscraper in Saudi Arabia. The building has 41 floors and 2 basements. AL-Mamlka Tower was selected as the "Best skyscraper of the world for design". It has a five-level shopping center with a 3,200 parking garage underneath, a hotel, and apartments. The sky bridge is a public observation deck where you can see the entire city of Riyadh.

Question 1

**You are visiting Saudi Arabia and decide to go to the top of the Kingdom Centre. It’s beautiful and you want to see all of Riyadh. You go to the highest point of the skyscraper which is 992 feet in the air. You take out a pair of binoculars and they fall off the side of the building. How long will it take for the binoculars to land? **

**Question 2 **

**The Kingdom Centre is unique because it has a architectural cutout at the top of the building, which begins at 960 feet and its ends at 984 feet. A mathematician is at ground level of the building with a baseball launcher wanting to shoot the baseball through the hole. The ball is shot at 256 feet per second, will it make it through the cutout of the building and if so what time will it take to do so? **