Question

1. How can you tell that a point on the graph is a maximum or minimum?

2. How would you explain average rate of change to a classmate who was absent today? What does it tell us and how do we find it?

Answer 1

1) To see whether it is a maximum or a minimum, in this case we can simply look at the graph. f(x) is a parabola, and we can see that the turning point is a minimum. By finding the value of x where the derivative is 0, then, we have discovered that the vertex of the parabola is at (3, −4).

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