Question

A softball is tossed into the air upward from a first floor balcony. The distance of the ball above the ground at any time is given by the function, distance function.h(t)=14+32t-16t2 where h(t) is the height of the softball above the ground (in feet) and t is the time (in seconds). What was the maximum height, in feet, of the softball above the ground after it was thrown?

Answer 1

you need to convert the function to vertex form

Answer 2

can you do that?

Answer 3

i dont know how to i dont under this question

Answer 4

or you can use calculus Have you done any calculus ( finding derivatives?)

Answer 5

the max height will be the vertex Y value

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

we can kind of think of the balls motion in the shape of a parabola on the graph.