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Example Questions
Example Question #3 : Lines
Find the equation of the line tangent to at .
The equation of the tangent line is To find , the slope, calculate the derivative and plug in the desired point.
The next step is to choose a coordinate on the original function. We can choose any value and calculate its value.
Let's choose .
The value at this point is .
Plugging in those values we can solve for .
Solving for we get =.
Example Question #3 : How To Find Equation Of Line By Graphing Functions
A function, , is given by
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Find the line tangent to at .
First we need to find the slope of at . To do this we need the derivative of . To take the derivative we need to use the power rule for the first term and recognize that the derivative of sine is cosine.
At,
Now we need to know
.
Now we have a slope, and a point
so we can use the point-slope formula to find the equation of the line.
Plugging in and rearranging we find
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Example Question #3 : Lines
Let .
Find the equation for a line tangent to when .
First, evaluate when .
Thus, we need a line that contains the point
Next, find the derivative of and evaluate it at .
To find the derivative we will use the power rule,
.
This indicates that we need a line with a slope of 8.
In point-slope form, , a line with the point and a slope of 8 will be:
Example Question #4 : How To Find Equation Of Line By Graphing Functions
What is the equation of the line tangent to at ? Round to the nearest hundreth.
The tangent line to at must have the same slope as .
Applying the chain rule we get
.
Therefore the slope of the line is,
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In addition, the tangent line touches the graph of at . Since , the point lies on the line.
Plugging in the slope and point we get .
Example Question #1 : Equation Of Line
Find the equation of the tangent line, where
, at .
In order to find the equation of the tangent line at , we first find the slope.
To do this we need to find .
Since we have found , now we simply plug in 1.
Now we need to plug in 1, into , to find a point that the tangent line touches.
Now we can use point-slope form to figure out what the equation of the tangent line is at .
Remember that point-slope for is
where and is the point where the tangent line touches , and is the slope of the tangent line.
In our case, , , and .
Thus our tangent line equation at is
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Example Question #1 : Equation Of Line
Find the equation of the tangent line of
, at .
In order to find the equation of the tangent line at , we first find the slope.
To do this we need to find using the power rule .
Since we have found , now we simply plug in 1.
Now we need to plug in 1, into , to find a point that the tangent line touches.
Now we can use point-slope form to figure out what the equation of the tangent line is at .
Remember that point-slope for is
where and is the point where the tangent line touches , and is the slope of the tangent line.
In our case, , , and .
Thus our tangent line equation at is
.
Example Question #11 : Equation Of Line
Give the general equation for the line tangent to at the point .
The equation of the tangent line has the form .
The slope can be determined by evaluating the derivative of the function at .
Plugging this into the point slope equation, we get
can be determined by evaluating the original function at .
Plugging this into the previous equation and simplifying gives us
Example Question #11 : Lines
Find the slope of the line tangent to the following function at .
None of these
To find the slope of the line tangent you must take the derivative of the function. The derivative of cosine is negative sine and the derivative of sine is cosine.
This makes the derivative of the function
.
Plug in the given x to get the slope.
Example Question #11 : Lines
Find the slope of the tangent line to the following function at .
None of these
To find the slope of the line tangent to the function at a point you must first find the derivative.
The power rule states that the derivative of is .
The derivative of is .
The derivative of the function is
.
Plugging in 1 for x gives
.
Example Question #12 : Equation Of Line
Given the differential function , we are told that , , and . Which of the following must be true?
is decreasing at .
has a point of inflection at .
is increasing over the interval .
The line is tangent to .
must have at least one relative maximum.
The line is tangent to .
" is decreasing at ." is incorrect. The function is increasing at because .
" is increasing over the interval ." is possibly true, but there is not enough information to conclude that it must be true.
" has a point of inflection at ." is possibly true. Although we know that , a requirement for an inflection point, we do not know that changes signs at .
" must have at least one relative maximum." is possibly true, but there is not enough information to conclude that it must be true.
"The line is tangent to ." must be true. Because , the function travels through the point . Because , the slope of the line tangent to the curve at is 5. Use point-slope form to determine the equation of the tangent line.