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Solve the following problem to the best of your ability. needed to solve the problem cither on this sheet or attached separate sheets. Submissions are due in class on Wednesday. October 19^th. The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is an example of an inverted catenary arch, an architectural design that is common in cathedrals and gothic architecture. The architect. Eero Saarinen, constructed the arch using the equation for the central curve of the arch, where x and y are measured in meters, and What is the height of the arch at its center? At what points is the height of the arch 50m? What is the slope of the arch at each of those two points?

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(a)The Gateway Arch in St. Louis was designed by Eero Saarinen and was constructed using the equation below for the central curve of the arch, where x and y are in meters and |x| 91.20.
y = 211.49 - 20.96cosh ( 0.03291765x )

At x=0, coshx=1
y=211.49-20.96(1)=190.53m

(b)

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