The function represents the profit, and the company obviously wants to maximize it.
You can see that the profit increases until the parabola reaches its maximum.
The coordinate of the maximum look like (1.5, 90)
This means that, if the company invests 1.5 thousand dollars, the profit will be 90 thousand dollars, and this is the maximum profit the company can reach.
For this case we have the following function:

By the time the stone is thrown, x = 0.
We must evaluate this value of x in the function.
We have then:
Answer:
The height of the stone at the time is thrown is given by:
h (0) = 15 meters
The slope is 0, it is a straight line.
Hope this helps!
There is no solution to this, due to X can be equal anything. Hope this helps!
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