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Jacy keeps track of the amount of average monthly rainfall in her hometown. She determines that the average monthly rainfall can be modeled by the function ...where ...represents the average monthly rainfall in centimeters and ... represents how many months have passed. If ... represents the average rainfall in July, in which months does Jacy’s hometown get at least 10.5 centimeters of rainfall? Show all of your algebraic reasoning to support your final answer.

Jacy keeps track of the amount of average monthly rainfall in her hometown. She determines-example-1

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Answer:

September, October, November

Explanation:

When monthly rainfall in centimeters is represented by A(t) = 2.3sin(πt/6)+9.25 and A(0) represents July's rainfall, you want to know the months in which average rainfall is at least 10.5 cm.

Inequality

We want to find the values of t that make A(t) ≥ 10.5:

2.3sin(πt/6) +9.25 ≥ 10.5

2.3sin(πt/6) ≥ 1.25 . . . . . . subtract 9.25

sin(πt/6) ≥ 0.543478 . . . . divide by 2.3

πt/6 ≥ 0.574575 . . . . . . . take inverse sine

t ≥ 1.097

The sine function is symmetrical about π/2, so this also means solutions will be of the form ...

πt/6 ≤ π -0.574575

t ≤ 6 -1.097 ≈ 4.903

Months

The month numbers that will have rainfall at least 10.5 cm will fall in the range ...

1.097 ≤ t ≤ 4.903

t ∈ {2, 3, 4}

If July is month 0, then these months are September, October, November.

Jacy's hometown will get at least 10.5 cm of rain in September, October, and November.

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Additional comment

The attachment confirms this result. We have shifted the rainfall function so it can use conventional month numbers. It shows months 9, 10, 11 have rainfall above 10.5 cm.

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