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Setting up problems with constant acceleration

Problem

Onur drops a basketball from a height of 10m on Mars, where the acceleration due to gravity has a magnitude of 3.7ms2. We want to know how many seconds the basketball is in the air before it hits the ground. We can ignore air resistance.
Which kinematic formula would be most useful to solve for the target unknown?
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