A player throws a ball up and toward a wall that is 17 feet high. The height h in feet of the ball after t seconds after it leaves the player's hand is modeled by h=-16t^2+25t+6. If the ball makes it to where the wall is, will it go over the wall or hit the wall?

Find the vertex as well.

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think back to your algebra I.
Where is the vertex of a parabola?

remember x = -b/2a ?