According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, in Detroit, Michigan, the number of hours of sunlight on the

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According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, in Detroit, Michigan, the number of hours of sunlight on the summer solstice of 2010 was 15.30, and the number of hours of sunlight on the winter solstice was 9.10.

(a) Find a sinusoidal function of the form y = A sin(ωx – ϕ) + B that models the data.

(b) Use the function found in part (a) to predict the number of hours of sunlight on April 1, the 91st day of the year.

(c) Draw a graph of the function found in part (a).

(d) Look up the number of hours of sunlight for April 1 in the Old Farmer’s Almanac, and compare the actual hours of daylight to the results found in part (c).

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Precalculus

ISBN: 978-0321716835

9th edition

Authors: Michael Sullivan

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