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Determine the rate of change of each graph

Determine the rate of change of each graph-example-1
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the slope goes by several names

• average rate of change

• rate of change

• deltaY over deltaX

• Δy over Δx

• rise over run

• gradient

• constant of proportionality

however, is the same cat wearing different costumes.

to get the slope of any straight line, we simply need two points off of it, let's use those two in the picture below.


(\stackrel{x_1}{-2}~,~\stackrel{y_1}{-2})\qquad (\stackrel{x_2}{1}~,~\stackrel{y_2}{2}) ~\hfill~ \stackrel{slope}{m}\implies \cfrac{\stackrel{\textit{\large rise}} {\stackrel{y_2}{2}-\stackrel{y1}{(-2)}}}{\underset{\textit{\large run}} {\underset{x_2}{1}-\underset{x_1}{(-2)}}} \implies \cfrac{2 +2}{1 +2} \implies \cfrac{ 4 }{ 3 }

Determine the rate of change of each graph-example-1
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