Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
Average rate of change is the same thing as the slope of the line between 2 points. What we have are the x values of each of 2 coordinates. What we don't have are the y values that go with those. But we can find them! Aren't you so happy?
We can find the y value that corresponds to each of those x values by evaluating the function at each x value, one at a time. That means plug in 4 for x and solve for y, and plug in 6 for x and solve for y.
[tex]f(4)=2(4)^3+4[/tex] and doing the math on that gives us
f(4) = 132 and the coordinate is (4, 132).
Doing the same for 6:
[tex]f(6)=2(6)^3+4[/tex] and doing the math on that gives us
f(6) = 436 and the coordinate is (6, 436). Now we can use the slope formula to find the average rate of change (aka slope):
[tex]m=\frac{436-132}{6-4}=\frac{304}{2}=152[/tex] where m represents the slope
