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Not sure I’m doing this correctly or I’m missing something please help ! The wheel has a radius of 32 feet and the distance from the center of the Ferris wheel to the ground is 40 feet.

Not sure I’m doing this correctly or I’m missing something please help ! The wheel-example-1
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a)

From the information given, the ferris wheel makes a complete rotation in 16 minutes.

A complete rotation is 360 degrees. This means that each angle is

360/12 = 30 degrees

Lets us assume that the starting point is A. As the ferris wheel move towards the highest point at D, the angle covered is 30 + 30 + 30 = 90 degrees

We have the following equations

360 = 16

90 = (90 x 16)/360 = 4

b) Recall, 1 minute = 60 seconds

Thus, 16 minutes = 16 x 60 = 960 seconds

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