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Abigail tosses her ex-boyfriends ring off a bridge into the stream below. The height in feet of the ring is above the water is modeled by the function where is the time in seconds. What is the maximum height the ring reaches?

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If you take the derivative of h(t) and solve dy/dx=0 for t, then you can use that value of t back in h(t) to find the maximum height that was reached.
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