General: Velocity The fastest baseball pitch on record (thrown by Lynn Nolan Ryan of the California Angels on August 20, 1974) was clocked at 100.9 miles per hour (148 feet per second).
a. If this pitch had been thrown straight up, its height after t seconds would have been s(t) = -16t2+148t+5 feet. Find the maximum height the ball would have reached.
b. Verify your answer to part (a) by graphing the height function y1 = -16x2+148x+5 on the window [0, 10] by [0, 400]. Then TRACE along the curve to find its highest point (or use the MAXIMUM feature of your calculator).
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