Solving Simple Harmonic Motion: Identifying Relevant Parameters

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Caraniah
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In graphs of SHM, it says that "identify and use relevant parameters from the following graphs"

1. displacement-time

My question is, what it meant by "relevant parameters"?
 
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I believe they are referring to the minimum amount of parameters that are required to describe the wave. Those would be: frequency, wavelength or speed, amplitude, and phase shift.