1. TANGENT AND VELOCITY 1) A bottle is leaking water. The table below gives the amount of water left (V in cc) in t...
SOLUTION We will be able to find an equation of the tangent line t soon as we know its slope m. The difficulty is that we know only one point, P, on t, whereas we need two points to compute the slope. Bu observe that we can compute an approximation to m by choosing a nearby point Q(x, 4x?) on the graph (as in the figure) and computin slope mpo of the secant line PQ. [A secant line, from the...
number 1 94 CHAPTER 2 LIMITS AND DERIVATIVES 2.1 Exercises 1. A tank holds 1000 gallons of water, which drains from the bottom of the tank in half an hour. The values in the table show the volume V of water remaining in the tank (in gallons) after t minutes 30 r (min) 10 15 20 25 V(gal) 694 444 250 111 28 (a) If P is the point (15, 250) on the graph of V. find the slopes of...