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Your personal slope problem

mark

(10 points)

For this problem, you’re going to use approximation by the difference quotient to estimate the slope of a line (and ultimately the equation of that line) that is tangent to your very own personal quadratic function. To find your function and precise problem statement, choose your name from the list below.

mark
audrey

My personal function is

f(x) = 4x(3-x).

According to Desmos, it appears that the slope of the tangent line is about 6. The graph of the function looks like:

ashley

My personal function is f(x)=3x(2-x).
According to Desmos, the slope of the tangent line is about 3.
The graph of the function looks like this:

lliberty

My personal function is

f(x)=3x(5-x)

According to Desmos, the slope of my function is about 7.5, and my graph of which looks like this:

lwilkie

My personal function is

f(x)=6x(3-x)

According to Desmos, the slope of the tangent line at x=0.75 is about 8.4

Here is the graph

dkey

My personal function is

f(x) = 2x(5-x)

The slope of the tangent line is around m=5.

afuson

My Personal function is

f(x) = 2x(1-x)

According to Desmos, the slope of the tangent line is about 1. The graph of the function looks like this:

bserra

My personal function is

f(x)=6x(5-x)

According to Desmos, the slope of the tangent line is about 15.
Tha graph of the function looks like this:

chowell1

My personal formula was:

f(x)=5x(3-x)

According to Desmos, the slope of the tangent line is 7.5.
Here is the graph:

mearing

My personal formula is
f(x)=2x(3-x)

The slope of my tangent line is m=2.8

cmoore14

My personal function is:

f(x) = 6x(4-x)

The slope of the tangent line at x=1 appears to be 12. The graph is:

rserra

My personal function is:

f(x)=6x(1-x).

According to Desmos, the slope of the tangent line is about 3. The graph of the function looks like this:

cbrowni1

My function is

f(x)=4x(2-x)

According to Desmos, the slope of the tangent line is most likely 3.6. The graph of the function is as such…

abjorkma

My personal function is
f(x)=5x(4-x)
According to Desmos, the slope of the tangent line is about 10. The graph of the function looks like this:

mbradle7

My personal function is:

f(x)=6x(2-x)

According to Desmos, the slope of the tangent line is about 5.4.

lfountai

My personal function is f(x)=2x(4-x)

mark
mark

(10 points)

For this problem, you’re going to use approximation by the difference quotient to estimate the slope of a line (and ultimately the equation of that line) that is tangent to your very own personal quadratic function. To find your function and precise problem statement, choose your name from the list below.

audrey

My personal quadratic function is:

f(x) = 4x(3-x).

According my Desmos computations, the slope is about 6 so the line has equation

y=6.75 + 6(x-0.75).

The graph looks like so: