U-Haul is a moving truck rental company with over 20,000 locations in the United States. Customers pick up a truck and drive their belongings to their new home. The cost of renting a U-Haul depends on the number of miles driven in the truck.
U-Haul is a moving truck rental company with over 20,000 locations in the United States. Customers pick up a truck and drive their belongings to their new home. The cost of renting a U-Haul depends on the number of miles driven in the truck.
The table below shows the relationship between the number of miles driven with a U-Haul and the cost of renting the U-Haul.
What is the average rate of change in the cost of the rental between
What is the average rate of change in the cost of the rental between
Graph the points.
What does the graph reveal about the relationship between the number of miles driven and the cost of the rental?
Is the rate of change of the cost increasing, decreasing, or staying constant? Explain.
U-Haul charges all its customers a minimum base price regardless of how many miles they drive. What is this base price? How do you know?
Write an equation for
"Equal changes in input produce equal changes in output." represent what type of function?
Give one word to describe the average rate of change of a linear function.
Give one word to describe the rate of change OF the rate of change of a linear function.
Do linear functions have concavity?
Go back to your sketch on #3 and draw a secant line and a tangent line. What do you notice?
