Question

Find the average rate of change of the function over the given interval

Answer 1

$\bf slope = {{ m}}= \cfrac{rise}{run} \implies \cfrac{{{ f(x_2)}}-{{ f(x_1)}}}{{{ x_2}}-{{ x_1}}}\impliedby \begin{array}{llll} average\ rate\\ of\ change \end{array}\\\\ -------------------------------$

$\bf h(t)=cot(t)\implies h(t)=\cfrac{cos(t)}{sin(t)}\quad \begin{cases} t_1=\frac{\pi }{4}\\ t_2=\frac{3\pi }{4} \end{cases}\implies \cfrac{h\left( \frac{3\pi }{4} \right)-h\left( \frac{\pi }{4} \right)}{\frac{3\pi }{4}-\frac{\pi }{4}}$

$\bf \cfrac{\frac{cos\left( \frac{3\pi }{4} \right)}{sin\left( \frac{3\pi }{4} \right)}-\frac{cos\left( \frac{\pi }{4} \right)}{sin\left( \frac{\pi }{4} \right)}}{\frac{\pi }{2}}\implies \cfrac{-1-1}{\frac{\pi }{2}}\implies \cfrac{-2}{\frac{\pi }{2}}\implies -\cfrac{4}{\pi }\\\\\\ -------------------------------$

$\bf h(t)=cot(t)\implies h(t)=\cfrac{cos(t)}{sin(t)}\quad \begin{cases} t_1=\frac{\pi }{3}\\ t_2=\frac{3\pi }{2} \end{cases}\implies \cfrac{h\left( \frac{3\pi }{2} \right)-h\left( \frac{\pi }{3} \right)}{\frac{3\pi }{2}-\frac{\pi }{3}}$

$\bf \cfrac{\frac{cos\left( \frac{3\pi }{2} \right)}{sin\left( \frac{3\pi }{2} \right)}-\frac{cos\left( \frac{\pi }{3} \right)}{sin\left( \frac{\pi }{3} \right)}}{\frac{9\pi -2\pi }{6}}\implies \cfrac{\frac{0}{-1}-\frac{\frac{1}{2}}{\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}}}{\frac{7\pi }{6}}\implies\cfrac{-\frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}}{\frac{7\pi }{6}}\implies -\cfrac{\sqrt{3}}{3}\cdot \cfrac{6}{7\pi } \\\\\\ -\cfrac{2\sqrt{3}}{7\pi }$