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1.4 How Much Does It Cost to Rent a U-Haul?

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Experience
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.

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What is the average rate of change in the cost of the rental between m=10 and m=25?

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What is the average rate of change in the cost of the rental between m=25 and m=50?

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Graph the points.

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What does the graph reveal about the relationship between the number of miles driven and the cost of the rental?

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Is the rate of change of the cost increasing, decreasing, or staying constant? Explain.

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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?

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Write an equation for C(m), the cost of renting the U-Haul and driving it for m miles.

Formalize
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"Equal changes in input produce equal changes in output." represent what type of function?

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Give one word to describe the average rate of change of a linear function.

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Give one word to describe the rate of change OF the rate of change of a linear function.

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Do linear functions have concavity?

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Go back to your sketch on #3 and draw a secant line and a tangent line. What do you notice?