The temperature inside a greenhouse is \(16^\circ\mathrm{C}\) at its daily minimum at 5 am on 18 August 2026. It next reaches a minimum at 5 am on 19 August. The average temperature is \(22^\circ\mathrm{C}\).
Let \(t\) be the number of hours after midnight on 18 August 2026. The temperature \(T(t)\), in degrees Celsius, is modelled by \(T(t)=a\cos\bigl(b(t-c)\bigr)+22\), where \(a\), \(b\) and \(c\) are positive constants.
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