Over the course of a full year, the daylight in a certain city follows a periodic pattern. The graph below represents the average daylight, in minutes, over the course of twenty-four months, with time t, representing the number of months after January 1 of a certain year.

Question

Over the course of a full year, the daylight in a certain city follows a periodic pattern. The graph below represents the average daylight, in minutes, over the course of twenty-four months, with time t, representing the number of months after January 1 of a certain year.

What is the minimum and what does it represent in this context?
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Time (in months)
Average Daylight (in minutes)
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Time (in months)
Average Daylight (in minutes)
(5.5, 943)
(17.5, 943)
(11.5, 496)
(23.5, 496)

Answer 1

Over the course of a full year, the daylight in a certain city follows a periodic pattern. The graph below represents the average daylight, in minutes, over the course of twenty-four months, with time t, representing the number of months after January 1 of a certain year.

The minimum value on the graph is 496 minutes, which represents the shortest amount of daylight in the city over the course of the year.