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(Solved): On a day when the sun passes directly overhead at noon, a 6-ft-tall man casts a shadow of length 6 s ...
On a day when the sun passes directly overhead at noon, a 6-ft-tall man casts a shadow of length 6 s(t) = tan 12 where S is measured in feet and it is the number of hours since 6 A.M. 7:00 A.M. S (a) Find the length of the shadow at 7:00 A.M., noon, and 2:00 P.M. (Round your answers to two decimal places.) ft 0 S 51 6 ft noon ft 2:00 P.M. (b) Sketch a graph of the function S for 0 < t < 12. ft S
On a day when the sun passes directly overhead at noon, a 6- ft-tall man casts a shadow of length S(t)=?tan(12??t)?6? where S is measured in feet and t is the number of hours since 6 A.M. (a) Find the length of the shadow at 7:00 A.M., noon, and 2:00 P.M. (Round your answers to (b) Sketch a graph of the function s for 0<t<12.
b) Sketch a graph of the function S for 0<t<12. (c) From the graph, determine the values of t at which the length of the shadow equals the man's height. To
(c) From the graph, determine the values of t at which the length of the shadow equals the man's height. To what time of day does each of these values correspond? t=6; that is, at noon t=1 and t=11; that is, at 11:00 A.M. and 1:00 P.M t=1 and t=11; that is, at 7:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M t=3 and t=9; that is, at 3:00 A.M. and 9:00 P.M t=3 and t=9; that is, at 9:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M (d) Explain what happens to the shadow as the time approaches 6 P.M. (that is, as t?12?). The shadow gets increasingly longer. The length of the shadow approaches 6 feet. The length of the shadow approaches 12 feet. The length of the shadow approaches 46 feet. The shadow gets increasingly shorter.