The Squirrel question

Question

A squirrel runs up and down a tree.

The graph shows the height of the squirrel,  (feet), as a function of time,  (seconds).

1. What is the highest point the squirrel reaches?
2. Solve . What does this solution tell you about the squirrel?
3. Find the vertical intercept of the graph. What does it tell you about the squirrel?

Answer 1

1.) The highest point is 14 feet. That occurs at 1.5 seconds where the graph is at the highest.

2.) The solution is t = 4. Solution can also be written as (4,0). So at 4 seconds, the squirrel is at the ground (h = 0)

3.) The vertical intercept is 9 feet. That means that at t=0, the squirrel's height is 9 feet. In other words, the squirrel's starting height is 9 feet