Question

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.

Answer 1

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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