A safety specialist was concerned about cars' speeds on a certain busy stretch of road. They randomly selected 21 cars and measured their speeds at the same point on the road. Each car was from a different time period and day, so the specialist is willing to consider the sample as representative. The speeds in the sample were strongly skewed to the left with a sample mean of overline x =96.5 km/hr . There were also a few outliers

You're asking in the ap section, so i'll give the ap calculus-style answer. alternatively, you can find the vertex of the parabola and use the "y"-coordinate as the answer.

the maximum height can occur at a critical number, that is, a number  such that  .

the derivative of  can be calculated as follows:



find a value of  that is a zero of the derivative:


this is parabola that is opening downward; we can assume there is a maximum at  .

to find that maximum, calculate  .