A25-newton weight falls freely from rest from
the roof of a building. what is the total distance
the weight falls in the first 1.0 second?
(1) 19.6 m (3) 4.9 m
(2) 9.8 m (4) 2.5 m

The acceleration of gravity on Earth is 9.8 m/s² .

Neglecting air resistance, an object starting at rest
is falling 9.8 m/s after 1 second.

Its average speed during that second is  (1/2) (0 + 9.8 m/s)

                                                                 =  4.9 m/s .

So it falls 4.9 meters during that second.

The weight of the object doesn't enter in to this calculation.
The acceleration of gravity is the acceleration of gravity, and
the weight of the object doesn't matter.  If you can find a
chamber that's big enough and you pump all the air out of it,
then you can drop a feather and a battleship in the chamber,
and they fall together and hit the floor at the same time. 

Iread this book last year so take this with a grain of salt.gene jumps from the tree to compete with finny due to the fact that gene is always trying to do better than finny. he is put under the grasp of peer pressure due to finny almost forcing him to do this. ever since he first jumped finny kept pressuring him to jump since he thought gene enjoyed jumping.rather than uses this answer you should probably just reread chapters 3-4