When Zakir threw a beach ball to his friend, its horizontal velocity changed as it traveled through the air. The relationship between the elapsed time, ttt, in seconds, since Zakir threw the ball, and its horizontal velocity, V(t)V(t)V, left parenthesis, t, right parenthesis, in \text{cm/s}cm/sstart text, c, m, slash, s, end text is modeled by the following function: