4.12 (Average Rate of change)

What is Mrs. Gordon's rate from 0 to 2 seconds?

• 2.5 feet per second
• .4 feet per second
• 5 feet per second
• .2 feet per second

Calculate the average rate of change from 20 to 40 minutes.

• -2 minutes per gallon

• -20 minutes per gallon

• -2 gallons per minute

• -20 gallons per minute

Find the average rate of change over the given interval. 

• 4
• 7
• 7/3
• 3/7

What is the average rate of change of [1, 5]?

• -0.65
• -0.75
• 3.75
• 4

The table below shows the snowfall in a north-eastern city in inches for the first week in January.

Find the average rate of change in the number of inches of snowfall from January 8 to January 11.

• 2/3 in.

• 2 in.

• 3 in.

• 6 in.

The Jamison family kept a log of the distance they traveled during a trip, as represented by the graph below. During which interval was their average speed the greatest?

• the first hour to the second hour

• the second hour to the fourth hour

• the sixth hour to the eighth hour

• the eighth hour to the tenth hour

What was the average rate of change in the population from 1900 to 1990?

• 175 million people/year
• 1.94 million people/year
• 2.13 million people/year
• -1 million people/year

Which of the following intervals has the largest average rate of change?

• [13,14]
• [13, 17]
• [16, 17]
• [16, 19]

A climber is on a hike. After 2 hours he is at an altitude of 400 feet. After 6 hours, he is at an altitude of 700 feet. What is the average rate of change? 

• 200
• 150
• 300
• 75

What is the average rate of change from x=0 to x=1

• -3
• 3
• 0
• 2