Calculus: An Integrated Approach to Functions and their Rates of Change, Preliminary Edition Part 74 pps

... us to answer two related problems. How do we calculate the instantaneous rate of change of a quantity? How do we calculate the slope of the line tangent to a curve at a point? The physical and ... the specified degree of accuracy? Can we give an exact answer to the question of the cheetah’s net change in position? SOLUTION Let’s compare the terms of the left- and right-...

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... to Functions and Their Rates of Change PRELIMINARY EDITION Sponsoring Editor: Laurie Rosatone Managing Editor: Karen Guardino Project Editor: Ellen Keohane Marketing Manager: Michael Boezi Manufacturing ... Windfall Software Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gottlieb, Robin (Robin Joan) Calculus: an integrated approach to functions and their...

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... Guardino, Sara Anderson, Michael Boezi, Susan Laferriere, and Barbara Atkinson. And thanks to Elka Block and Frank Purcell, for their comments and suggestions. Finally, I want to thank the following ... and also of Ben Stephens and Huan Yang. For their work on solutions, thanks go to Peter Gilchrist, Boris Khentov, Dave Marlow, and Sean Owen and coworkers. My thank...

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... value of f at2is7. 2 f → 7 f(2)=7 The expression y = f(x)is shorthand for “y is the output of f corresponding to an input of x” and it is read “y equals f of x.” When we say y = f(x),wemean that ... chances are that you’re at a bus stop. The symbol takes on a life of its own when a Bostonian says, “I’ll take the ‘T’ downtown.” On the other hand, New Yorkers look for an “M”...

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... bushels of huckleberries per hour; Lollipop can devour L bushels of huckleberries in C hours. Express your answers to parts (a) and (b) in terms of any or all of the constants A, X, B, L, and C. (a) ... manufacturer decides to switch to plastic lids and bottoms to eliminate the taping problems. Assume that custom-made plastic lids and bottoms cost 7k cents per square i...

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... Characterizing Functions and Introducing Rates of Change (a) The increase in the price of a cup of coffee in Seattle from 1970 to 2000 (b) The percent increase in the price of a cup of coffee in Seattle ... negative and sometimes positive, but always increasing). 72 CHAPTER 2 Characterizing Functions and Introducing Rates of Change 5. Use the algebraic interpretati...

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... (fg)(x), and  f g  (x), and find their domains. 39. f(x)=ax + b and g(x) = cx + d 40. f(x)=3x + 2and g(x) = 5x − 1 41. f(x)=2x + 3and g(x) =x 2 −1 42. f(x)= 3 x+1 and g(x) = 2x x−5 43. f(x)= √ x and ... There are many ways of decomposing functions. For instance, suppose h(x) = x 2 + 1 x 2 + 2 and we want to find f and g such that f(g(x))=h(x). Determine which of the f...

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... use demand curves to express the relationship between the price of an item and the number of items demanded by consumers. Below is a demand curve for a certain good. q is the quantity of the ... points (π,3 )and (−π,5) 8. Passing through point ( √ 3, √ 2) and parallel to 3x − 4y = 7 9. Passing through the origin and perpendicular to πx − √ 3y = 12 10. x-intercept of √ π...

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... = 1 x . For what value(s) of x is the slope of the tangent line to g equal to the average rate of change of g on the interval indicated? Illustrate your answer to parts (a) and (b) with pictures. (a) ... graph of √ x − 1 related to that of √ x? (b) How is the graph of the derivative of √ x − 1 related to that of the derivative of √ x? Illustrate with a rough sk...

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... Your essay should be designed to help her. (a) Explain the relationship between average rate of change and instantaneous rate of change, and between secant lines and tangent lines. Your classmate ... approximations and thus narrowed in on the desired quantity. Using analytic methods and a limiting process, we allowed the second data point to get arbitrarily close to the...

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