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Rates of Change

Average rate of change, secant lines, instantaneous rate of change, and tangent lines

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📈 Rates of Change

Study average and instantaneous rates of change, secant and tangent lines, and real-world applications.

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A stone is dropped into a still pond, creating a circular ripple. The radius of the ripple is increasing at a rate of $2$ cm/s. How fast is the area of the circle increasing when the radius is $10$ cm?

2Write the relationship between variables

3Differentiate both sides with respect to time

4Substitute known values

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Average rate of change, secant lines, instantaneous rate of change, and tangent lines

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