document.write( "Question 214798: Find the difference quotient for the function:
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document.write( "The difference quotient is the slope of the line that\r\n" );
document.write( "contains the two points (x,f(x)) and (x+h,f(x+h))\r\n" );
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document.write( "And indeed because  is in the form \r\n" );
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document.write( "as we expected the slope to be \r\n" );
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