Solve Projectile Speed Problem: Intuition or Formula?

[Jngo22]

Would anyone care to take a gander at this problem and help me find the solution.

What I think the answer is
figure 1: same
figure 2: less

figure 1: same
figure 2: smaller

I'm pretty much basing this off of intuition but if anyone could let me know what formula to use to solve the problem, i would appreciate it

 

[Andrew Mason]

Would anyone care to take a gander at this problem and help me find the solution.

What I think the answer is
figure 1: same
figure 2: less

figure 1: same
figure 2: smaller

I'm pretty much basing this off of intuition but if anyone could let me know what formula to use to solve the problem, i would appreciate it

Your answers to 1 are correct. The correct answer to question 2 is: smaller and smaller.

In figure 1 the balls reach the same height so they have the same vertical speed at launch BUT ball B has more horizontal speed. That means that B has more kinetic energy => more launch speed.

AM