Student123
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The avg annual salary of a professional baseball player can be modelled by the function S(x) = 246 + 64x - 8.9x^2 + 0.95x^3, where S represents the number of years since 1982. Determine the rate at which the avg salary was changing in 2005.
I keep getting stuck on every question so I'm behind on homework. This is supposed to use the difference quotient with limits so I did lim h->0 of [S(23+h) - S(23)]/h and kept going to plug in the x-value of 2005-1982=23 but then the numerator doesn't have all h's since the constant doesn't cross out.
I got until -11558.65 - 345.4h - 8.9h^2 + 0.95x^3 + 2.85x^2h + 2.85xh^2 + 0.95h^3. I feel like there's something I'm not understanding in the theory behind this problem but I'm not sure what.
I keep getting stuck on every question so I'm behind on homework. This is supposed to use the difference quotient with limits so I did lim h->0 of [S(23+h) - S(23)]/h and kept going to plug in the x-value of 2005-1982=23 but then the numerator doesn't have all h's since the constant doesn't cross out.
I got until -11558.65 - 345.4h - 8.9h^2 + 0.95x^3 + 2.85x^2h + 2.85xh^2 + 0.95h^3. I feel like there's something I'm not understanding in the theory behind this problem but I'm not sure what.