BUSINESS: Revenue Operating revenues for Honeywell International for recent years are show...

BUSINESS: Revenue Operating revenues for Honeywell International for recent years are shown below.

Source: Standard & Poor’s

These revenues are approximated by the function , where x stands for years since 2000.

a. Find f′(x) using the definition of the derivative.

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b. Evaluate the derivative at x = 1 and interpret the result.

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c. Find the rate of change of Honeywell’s operating revenues in 2006.