La Grande Roue de Montréal is the largest Ferris wheel in Canada and the fourth largest in the world. It has a diameter of 60 m, and one revolution takes 5 minutes to complete. Suppose riders can see Mount Yamaska if they were higher than 50 m above the ground. (a) Suppose the rider gets on at a height of 0.5 m at t = 0 minutes. Write a trigonometric function to represent the height of a rider above the ground h(t), in meters, as a function of time t, in mir

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Section6.6: Additional Trigonometric Graphs
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6. La Grande Roue de Montréal is the largest Ferris
wheel in Canada and the fourth largest in the world.
It has a diameter of 60 m, and one revolution takes 5
minutes to complete. Suppose riders can see Mount
Yamaska if they were higher than 50 m above the
ground.
(a) Suppose the rider gets on at a height of 0.5 m at t = 0 minutes. Write a trigonometric function
to represent the height of a rider above the ground h(t), in meters, as a function of time t, in minutes
Transcribed Image Text:6. La Grande Roue de Montréal is the largest Ferris wheel in Canada and the fourth largest in the world. It has a diameter of 60 m, and one revolution takes 5 minutes to complete. Suppose riders can see Mount Yamaska if they were higher than 50 m above the ground. (a) Suppose the rider gets on at a height of 0.5 m at t = 0 minutes. Write a trigonometric function to represent the height of a rider above the ground h(t), in meters, as a function of time t, in minutes
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Do we not get the a-value by dividing the sum of the max and min by 2? I'm a bit lost

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