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After completing the Ramp Lab in Chapter 2, Marquita decided to ride her bicycle down a nearby hill to gain more data on rolling objects. The data she collected is shown in the table below.
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Can Marquita use this table to determine her exact velocity at
. Explain. Tables only give us select values of a function. What values are we given that are close to
? Are these values close enough to find Marquita's exact velocity at ? Approximate Marquita's velocity at
using Hana' s method. Note: Since we do note know values that are infinitely close to
, we can find Marquita's AROC (average velocity), not her IROC (actual velocity). Marquita' s teacher observed that her data fits the function
. Assuming that her teacher is correct, compute Marquita's exact velocity at and . Use the Power Rule to find the IROC/derivative/slope function/velocity funciton.Then evaluate at
and again at .