What is the maximum height the ball reaches? What is the height of the ball after 4 seconds? How long does it take for the ball to hit the ground?

Question

A softball batter hits a softball with an upward velocity of 46 ft/s. Its height (h) in feet after (t) seconds is modeled by the function h= -16t^2+46t+6.

Answer 1

Its on the ground when h=0

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It's on the ground in 3 seconds