Section 6-1
Warm – Up: Write in simplest form.
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Objective: To find rates of change from tables and graphs, and to find slope
vertical change
AB
BC
In the graph above,
and
have different rates of change
horizontal change
Example #1
For the data below, is the rate of change for each pair of consecutive days the same?
What does the rate of change represent?