Homework Help: trig

Posted by Destiny on Friday, January 20, 2012 at 10:20am.

if you are riding on a ferris wheel that is 60 ft tall and it takes you 5 minutes to make 1 revolution, what is your linear velocity?

trig - Reiny, Friday, January 20, 2012 at 11:29am
So the radius = 30 ft
circumference = 60π ft

So linear velocity = 60π ft / 5 min
= 12π ft/min

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