Four men were shipwrecked on an island. Having no food, they went to work gathering pineapples. After gathering pineapples, they were tired and all fell asleep. After another while, one of the men awoke and was very hungry so he ate 1/3 of the pineapples - more than his proper share. He then went back to sleep. The second man awoke and being hungry, ate 1/3 of the remaining pineapples and went back to sleep. The third man did the same. When the fourth man awoke, he took only his rightful share of the remaining pineapples. Then there were 6 pineapples left. How many pineapples did the men gather?

In new york city at the spring equinox there are 12 hours 8 minutes of daylight. the longest and shortest days of the year very by two hours and 53 minutes from the equinox in this year the equinox falls on march 21 in this task you use trigonometric function to model the hours of daylight hours on certain days of the year in new york city a.what is the independent and dependent variables? b.find the amplitude and the period of the function. c.create a trigonometric function that describes the hours of sunlight for each day of the year. d. graph the function you build in part c. e. use the function you build in part c to find out how many fewer daylight hours february 10 will have than march 21. you may look at the calendar.