SOLUTION: For the following function, find f(a+h)-f(a)/h, f(x)=5x^+4x-8

Question 547542: For the following function, find f(a+h)-f(a)/h, f(x)=5x^+4x-8
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What you wrote is f(a+h)-f(a)/h=, with f(x)=5x^+4x-8.
I think that you may have meant (f(a+h)-f(a))/h=, with
(That horizontal line is a very ink-efficient grouping symbol, it's equivalent to parenthesis around the expressions above it and below it).
If it's what I thought, , so

, and

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