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A person boards the loading station of a Ferris wheel 21 feet off the ground. The wheel is always rotating at a constant rate. He wants to ride all day. Forty minutes after the wheel opened , he is at the highest point on the wheel, 443 feet high. He is at the exact same location 28 minutes later. The question is the generate 5 points which represent elapsed time and height? X elapsed time(minutes) Y height(feet)

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Im going to guess you want a sinusoidal function. Its been a while but I can tell you most of it
(443-28)/2 is the amplitude
28 minutes is the period
40-28 is the horizontal shift
(443-28)/2+28 is the vertical shift
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