SOLUTION: A Ferris wheel is 32 meters in diameter and the bottom of the Ferris wheel is 8 meters above the ground. You board the Ferris wheel at the 3 o'clock position. Write a formula that

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Question 1005733: A Ferris wheel is 32 meters in diameter and the bottom of the Ferris wheel is 8 meters above the ground. You board the Ferris wheel at the 3 o'clock position.
Write a formula that gives the angle measure (in radians) swept out from the 3 o'clock position, a, in terms of the number of minutes elapsed since you boarded the Ferris wheel, t.
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A Ferris wheel is 32 meters in diameter and the bottom of the Ferris wheel is 8 meters above the ground. You board the Ferris wheel at the 3 o'clock position.
Write a formula that gives the angle measure (in radians) swept out from the 3 o'clock position, a, in terms of the number of minutes elapsed since you boarded the Ferris wheel, t.
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The speed of rotation has to be spec'd.