SOLUTION: Please help me Form A logarithmic function and help me Discuss the slope or rate of change

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Question 145646: Please help me Form A logarithmic function and help me
Discuss the slope or rate of change
Answer by nabla(475) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let's choose the natural log (ln) for our function. This is the log function with base e.
f(x)=ln(x)
The derivative of this function is
f'(x)=1/x
Which is to say, the function is changing at an inverse proportion to its x value.