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The Ferris Wheel pictured above, has a diameter of 30 meters. Passengers board this amazing wheel, at a cost of $10 each, from a platform 1.5 meters above the ground.

On average the passengers get 3 full revolutions in 15 minutes. a) Determine a trigonometric function that models the height of a passenger above the ground t minutes after boarding. b) Graph this function for 0

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