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jballer23
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1. I was given times for the sunrise in new york for one year. The question was that I needed to find a function that would best represent the data. The first column is the week number and the second is the time in hours and min.
1 7.2
2 7.2
3 7.18
4 7.14
5 7.09
6 7.02
7 6.54
8 6.45
9 6.35
10 6.24
11 6.13
12 6.01
13 5.5
14 5.38
15 5.27
16 5.16
17 5.06
18 4.56
19 4.47
20 4.4
21 4.34
22 4.29
23 4.26
24 4.24
25 4.26
26 4.29
27 4.33
28 4.38
29 4.44
30 4.5
31 4.57
32 5.04
33 5.11
34 5.17
35 5.24
36 5.31
37 5.38
38 5.45
39 5.52
40 5.59
41 6.06
42 6.14
43 6.22
44 6.3
45 6.39
46 6.47
47 6.55
48 7.02
49 7.08
50 7.14
51 7.18
52 7.18
2. I'm not sure what my teacher was thinking on this problem she just asked us to take it home and figure it out anyway that we could.
3. I've tried using my graphing calculator to find a line of best fit but none of them worked all too well. I think that its got to be a periodic function because it would repeat farly close to the same time the next year. So I was thinking maybe a sin or cos fuction. I'm not sure. If you could help that would be more helpful than you could imagine
1 7.2
2 7.2
3 7.18
4 7.14
5 7.09
6 7.02
7 6.54
8 6.45
9 6.35
10 6.24
11 6.13
12 6.01
13 5.5
14 5.38
15 5.27
16 5.16
17 5.06
18 4.56
19 4.47
20 4.4
21 4.34
22 4.29
23 4.26
24 4.24
25 4.26
26 4.29
27 4.33
28 4.38
29 4.44
30 4.5
31 4.57
32 5.04
33 5.11
34 5.17
35 5.24
36 5.31
37 5.38
38 5.45
39 5.52
40 5.59
41 6.06
42 6.14
43 6.22
44 6.3
45 6.39
46 6.47
47 6.55
48 7.02
49 7.08
50 7.14
51 7.18
52 7.18
2. I'm not sure what my teacher was thinking on this problem she just asked us to take it home and figure it out anyway that we could.
3. I've tried using my graphing calculator to find a line of best fit but none of them worked all too well. I think that its got to be a periodic function because it would repeat farly close to the same time the next year. So I was thinking maybe a sin or cos fuction. I'm not sure. If you could help that would be more helpful than you could imagine