SOLUTION: In 1893, Pittsburgh bridge builder George Ferris designed and built a gigantic revolving steel wheel whose height was 264 feet and diameter was 250 feet. This Ferris wheel opened a

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Question 1161177: In 1893, Pittsburgh bridge builder George Ferris designed and built a gigantic revolving steel wheel whose height was 264 feet and diameter was 250 feet. This Ferris wheel opened at the 1893 exposition in Chicago. It had 36 wooden cars, each capable of holding 60 passengers.
a) What is the radius of the Ferris Wheel?
b) How close is the wheel to the ground?
c) How high is the center of the wheel from the ground?
d) Using the axes in the drawing, what are the coordinates of the center of the wheel?
e) Write the equation that represents the wheel.
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source):
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a) Half the diameter

b) The height, minus the diameter

c) The distance from the ground to the wheel, plus the radius of the wheel;
OR
the height, minus the radius

d) No drawing is shown; call the center (h,k) (assuming you have the drawing, fill in the values of h and k)

e)