Answer:
1) The greatest height attained by the ball equals 20.387 meters.
2) The time it takes for the ball to reach 15 meters approximately equals 1 second.
Explanation:
The greatest height will be attained when the ball stop's in the air and starts falling back to the earth.
thus using third equation of kinematics we obtain the height attained as

where
'v' is the final speed of the ball
'u' is the initial speed of the ball
'a' is the acceleration that the ball is under which in this case equals 9.81 
's' is the distance it covers
Thus for maximum height applying the values in the equation we get

Using the same equation we can find the speed of the ball when it reaches 15 meters of height as

the time it takes to reduce the velocity to this value can be found by first equation of kinematics as

If your speed changes from 10 km/h to 6 km/h then
you have an acceleration.
Whether it's a positive or negative one completely depends
on which direction you decided to call the positive direction,
when you started considering your speed and its changes.
If you decided to call the direction in which you're traveling
the positive direction, then a decrease in your speed is a
negative acceleration.
But you could just as easily have said that you're traveling
in the negative direction. If you did that, then a decrease in
your speed would be a positive acceleration.
It's completely up to you, and how you define things.
The answer is 3
I hope I helped