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Thank you so much! I don't know why I decided to neglect units for that problem.

Would it then be 100m2/s2? So I should take the square root of my answer?

Well, vterminal2 is proportional to 1/A, so 102 = 1/(A*31) Solving for A I then get 1/3100 m/s, which seems a little ridiculous. I submitted my answer (from my original solution--3.2 m/s) and it was wrong, so I know I'm missing something. I just can't seem to figure out what.

Homework Statement Two packages are dropped from an airplane. A parachute can increase the cross sectional area of each packages by a factor of 31. The parachute on package 1 fails to open, and the terminal speed of package 1 is 10 m/s. The parachute on package 2 opens. What is the terminal...