by henrysun909@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jul 21, 2008 at 08:52 AM
On Jul 21, 12:20 am, William Elliot <ma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 henrysun...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> > Let's say that a function f(x) = x^.5 (square root of x) is graphed on
> > the coordinate axes and that a line p is drawn from the origin to
> > (x,y) where x is the number whose square root is being derived and y
> > is that number.
>
> > How does one estimate the slope of the line p as it moves along the
> > curve graphed by f(x) = x^.5?
>
> slope p = y/x = (sqr x)/x = 1/sqr x.
Thank you.
