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OpenStudy (anonymous):

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP. A person is riding on a ferris wheel. The height of the person off the ground changes as they travel around the wheel. The relationship between this height and time is shown on the graph.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

what is the question. i just see a statement.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

well what information do you need to find out.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

the period? the period represents 1 cycle of the function. and the period of sin is 2pi cos is 2pi tan is pi with their reciprocal functions respectively

OpenStudy (anonymous):

you might be wanting a more technical answer though @satellite73 he is better at that kind of stuff than me.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

that is a sin function.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

and its modeled poorly. we always used radian measure in terms of pi when graphing trig functions.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

the period of that function is quite a bit past 2pi 2pi is around 6.28

OpenStudy (anonymous):

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