The ball covers a horizontal distance of 0.902 meters. The trajectory of a kicked football adheres to a quadratic equation expressed as: f(x), where f(x) indicates the vertical distance in feet, and x signifies how far the ball travels horizontally. To compute the distance the ball will advance before striking the ground, we set the condition f(x) = 0. Upon solving this quadratic equation, we find that the horizontal distance traveled by the ball is: x = -0.902 meters, leading us to conclude that it travels 0.902 meters across the field.
