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You need to work out the value of $t$ that produces the maximum piont but that is not the final answer - you need to use that value of $t$ to find the maximum height, which you do by substituting $t$ into the original function to find $y$.</p>", "variablesTest": {"maxRuns": 100, "condition": ""}, "metadata": {"description": "", "licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International"}, "type": "question", "question_groups": [{"pickingStrategy": "all-ordered", "pickQuestions": 0, "name": "", "questions": []}], "functions": {}, "extensions": [], "contributors": [{"name": "cormac breen", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/306/"}]}]}], "contributors": [{"name": "cormac breen", "profile_url": "https://numbas.mathcentre.ac.uk/accounts/profile/306/"}]}