Finding Average Rate of Change from a Table

The table below shows the snowfall in a north-eastern city in inches for the first week in January.

Find the average rate of change in the number of inches of snowfall from January 8 to January 11.

• 2/3 in/day

• 2 in./day

• 3 in./day

• 6 in./day

Find the average rate of change of Pete's height from 3 years old to 5 years old.

• 2 inches per year

• 8 inches per year

• 2 years

• 4 inches per year

What is Mrs. Gordon's rate from 0 to 2 seconds?

• 2.5 feet per second

• 0.4 feet per second

• 5 feet per second

• 0.2 feet per second

What is the rate of change for this table?

• $1/9 per hour

• $9 per hour

• $8 per hour

Mathematical Equivalence

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What is the average rate of change of the function from x=2 to x=4?

• 20

• 100

• 300

• 600

Find the average rate of change between age 40 and 80

Find the average rate of change between age 40 and 80