15 minutes to complete his work hint 10
-5,-6 is the answer it is x than y
One hundred and three million, seven hundred and twenty-seven thousand, four hundred and ninety five.
What do you have to solve ?
This looks like an exercise that's building toward the idea of a derivative.
These calculations are done best with a calculator, but here's how the first interval is used:
Average velocity = (position at 2 - position at 1) / (2 - 1) It's really distance divided by time!
Position at t = 2:
Position at t = 1:
So over the interval [1, 2] the average velocity is
I used a spreadsheet to calculate the average velocity over the other intervals and a couple of shorter ones, too. (See attached image.)
As these intervals get shorter (the right endpoint is approaching 1), the average velocity gets closer and closer to the instantaneous velocity. An estimate would be -12.6.