Question

A ride in an amusement park features a swinging ship suspended from a height of 50 feet. The motion of the ship can be modeled by the graph below, where x represents the time, in seconds, since the start of the ride, and f(x) represents the angle, in radians, that the center of the ship makes with respect to the equilibrium position.
Select all the correct answers.

Answer 1

Answer: The first and last options are correct.

f(x) = pi/4 cos (pix/5 - pi/2)

f(x) = pi/4 sin (pix/5)

Step-by-step explanation

The graph shows that A = pi/4.

B = 10, so the period = 2pi/10 = pi/5.

sin and cos are cofunctions, so a phase shift of -pi/2 makes the two functions equal to each other.

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