PLEASE HELPP IM VERy CONFUSED IM MAKING IT WORTH 45 PLEASE HELP WILL MARK BRAINLIEST The height, h, in feet above the ground of a person riding a Ferris wheel can be modeled with the equation
h(t)=-45cos (pi/4 t) +52, where t is the number of minutes since boarding the ride.

(a) At what height does the person board the wheel? Explain how you arrived at your answer.

(b) How many minutes does one complete rotation of the wheel take?

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if the eqn of the parabola is f(x) = (x-4)(x+2), we need to mult. this out to find the coordinates of the vertex.

then f(x) = x^2 + 2x - 4x - 8, and f(x) = x^2 - 2x - 8.

one way in which you can find the vertex is to calculate x = -b / (2a).   here, that comes to

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x = = 1.   f(1) = 1^2 - 2(1) - 8 = - 9.   vertex is at (1, -9).

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find another point on the curve:   let x=0, for which y=-8.   then (0, -8) is on the curve.   plot the vertex and this point and draw a smooth parabola thru both.

hope this