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Your friend is helping to raise money for a local charity by participating in a cartwheel-a-thon. Your
friend is 70 inches tall with your friend's arms raised in the air. Your friend is able to complete a
cartwheel in 15 seconds. The charity sponsor supplies a wristband to each participant to assist in
counting the number of cartwheels completed. The wristband is 4 inches from the end of your friend's
arm. Write a model for the height h (in inches) of the wristband as a function of the time (in minutes)
given that the wristband is at the highest point when + = 0.

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The height of 70 inches, and location of the wristband as well as the period of 15 seconds gives the function for the height of the wristband as the equation;

  • h = 31•sin((8•π)•t + π/2) + 35

How can the height of the wristband be modelled?

The model for the height can be derived from the general form of the sine function as follows;

  • y = A•sin(B•t - C) + D

Maximum point = 70 - 4 = 66 at t = 0

Minimum point = 4

Amplitude, A = (66 - 4) ÷ 2 = 31

D = 4 + 31 = 35

At t = 0, we have;

66 = 31 × sin(B × 0 - C) + 35

31 = 31 × sin(- C)

sin(- C) = 1

C = -π/2

1 minute = 60 seconds

1 second= 1 minute/60

15 seconds = (15/60) minutes

Period = 15 seconds = 15/60 minutes

Period = 2•π/B

Therefore;

15/60 = 2•π/B

1/4 = 2•π/B

B = 2•π/(1/4) = 8•π

y = Height of the function

Let h represent the height of the wristband.

The equation for the height is therefore;

  • h = 31•sin((8•π)•t + π/2) + 35

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