Ball and Ramp: Solving for Time and Evaluating Position

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This is from a practice exam without an answer key. I tried the problem once before and am getting a different solution now. My method is solving for the time t when the x position is the width of ramp, and then evaluating y(t) to see if it is more or less than the height of the ramp.

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That sounds like a reasonable method - what did you do before?