SOLUTION: Consider the function {{{y = 4sin(expr(pi/4)(x) - pi/2) - 3}}}. Identify an interval starting at x = 2 with an average rate of change that is a) positive b) negative, and

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Question 1140452: Consider the function . Identify an interval starting at x = 2 with an average rate of change that is
a) positive
b) negative, and
c) zero
With explanations

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The first obvious thing to do is use the identity 

 to simplify.

 becomes



Its average (not instantaneous!) rate of change over 

is  



which simplifies to



Then we use the identity: 

I won't go through the details, but that simplifies to

}
Now you finish by solving this equality:



to find some zeros which will be answers to c) and which
will also be critical numbers for a) and b).  Then solve this



for a)

and this



for (b)

Edwin

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