Calculating the highest point of a trajectory

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1. A soccer ball is kicked with an initial actual velocity of 20 ms at an angle of 20 degrees with the horizontal. Find the vertical distance from ground to highest point.
 
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Take ground as x-axis and perpendicular as y axis. There is no acceleration in x direction.As acceleration in y-axis is gravity, and only y component of velocity is responsible for max height just use basic equations of motion under uniform acceleration and find out the answer.