Question

What is the average rate of change of the function over the interval x = 0 to x = 8?

Answer 1

Answer:  13/145

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Work Shown:

Plug in x = 0

$f(x) = \frac{2x-1}{3x+5}\\\\f(0) = \frac{2*0-1}{3*0+5}\\\\f(0) = \frac{0-1}{0+5}\\\\f(0) = -\frac{1}{5}$

Repeat for x = 8

$f(x) = \frac{2x-1}{3x+5}\\\\f(8) = \frac{2*8-1}{3*8+5}\\\\f(8) = \frac{16-1}{24+5}\\\\f(8) = \frac{15}{29}$

Now use the average rate of change formula

$m = \frac{f(b)-f(a)}{b-a}\\\\m = \frac{f(8)-f(0)}{8-0}\\\\m = \frac{15/29 - (-1/5)}{8}\\\\m = \frac{15/29 + 1/5}{8}\\\\m = \frac{(15/29)*(5/5) + (1/5)*(29/29)}{8}\\\\m = \frac{75/145 + 29/145}{8}$

$m=\frac{104/145}{8}\\\\m = \frac{104}{145} \div \frac{8}{1}\\\\m = \frac{104}{145} \times \frac{1}{8}\\\\m = \frac{104*1}{145*8}\\\\m = \frac{104}{1160}\\\\m = \frac{13}{145}$