A mountain cabin is built on the side of a hill with a porch extending over a portion of the downhill slope. An observer 20 ft downhill from one of the 8 -ft vertical support beams measures the angle formed from the top of the beam to the bottom as 10 ° . Find the angle of inclination of the hill to the nearest tenth of a degree.
A mountain cabin is built on the side of a hill with a porch extending over a portion of the downhill slope. An observer 20 ft downhill from one of the 8 -ft vertical support beams measures the angle formed from the top of the beam to the bottom as 10 ° . Find the angle of inclination of the hill to the nearest tenth of a degree.
Solution Summary: The author calculates the inclination of the hill with a vertical support beam of height 8 ft and the angle formed between top and bottom is 10°.
A mountain cabin is built on the side of a hill with a porch extending over a portion of the downhill slope. An observer
20
ft
downhill from one of the
8
-ft
vertical support beams measures the angle formed from the top of the beam to the bottom as
10
°
. Find the angle
of inclination of the hill to the nearest tenth of a degree.
Consider the function f(x) = x²-1.
(a) Find the instantaneous rate of change of f(x) at x=1 using the definition of the derivative.
Show all your steps clearly.
(b) Sketch the graph of f(x) around x = 1. Draw the secant line passing through the points on the
graph where x 1 and x->
1+h (for a small positive value of h, illustrate conceptually). Then,
draw the tangent line to the graph at x=1. Explain how the slope of the tangent line relates to the
value you found in part (a).
(c) In a few sentences, explain what the instantaneous rate of change of f(x) at x = 1 represents in
the context of the graph of f(x). How does the rate of change of this function vary at different
points?
1. The graph of ƒ is given. Use the graph to evaluate each of the following values. If a value does not exist,
state that fact.
и
(a) f'(-5)
(b) f'(-3)
(c) f'(0)
(d) f'(5)
2. Find an equation of the tangent line to the graph of y = g(x) at x = 5 if g(5) = −3 and g'(5)
=
4.
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3. If an equation of the tangent line to the graph of y = f(x) at the point where x 2 is y = 4x — 5, find ƒ(2)
and f'(2).
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