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Consider the table below that represents a quadratic function.

What is the rate of change between the first and second point?

Consider the table below that represents a quadratic function. What is the rate of-example-1

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it would be -1/2 because the formula to find slope (rate of change) is (y2-y1)/(x2-x1) and in this case it would be (4.5-2)/(-3--2) which simplifies to (2.5)/(-5) which is -1/2
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