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How do you find the rate of change?

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rate of change could be determined for any changing activity; rainfall, chemical reaction, prices, velocity, or even progress or change in performance in time.


You can find rate of change in three different ways.

  1. from a table as a change in the dependent variable divided by the corresponding change in the independent variable. Given two paired values (-2, 9) and (5, 11) to represent any changing situation, the rate of change (roc) is calculated by doing. (11-9)/(5- -2)=2/7
  2. the rate of change can also be calculated from a graph. We pick the two points we are interested in and calculate the gradient of the straight line connecting the two points by working out the change in y divided by the change in x, where x a y represent the horizontal and vertical axes or in the practical sense the independent and dependent variables
  3. given the equation ,formula or function, representing the process or activity, we could determine the rate of change as a derivative or gradient function by differentiating.



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Waseem Ghazanfar

Rate of change can be find by numerous methods one of them is by formula

R= D/T

where R represents rate of change

D stands for distance

T stands for time

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Sifiso Magongo

rate of change = amount of change divided by time taken

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Meharpreet Singh

You find the charge and divide it by the quantity

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Abdul Askar

The rate of change refers to what degree a variable relates to another.


Considering two points connected by a line on an XY graph. The rate of change of the variable Y in relation to X can be calculated by finding the gradient. The gradient = the change in Y, divided by, the change in X.


For example, given a line graph of distance travelled against time, the average gradient between two points along the graph can be found by: gradient = distance1-distance2/time1-time2. This also represents the speed between time1 and time2, as speed is defined as the rate of change of distance.

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Peter Oluwole Ajewole

If it is the rate of change of a quantity or variable with time, you divide the incremental change in the quantity with the incremental change in time.

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Ibrahim Rahman

The rate of change tells us how quickly something changes over time, like how fast a car is going or how tall a plant grows. To find it, you look at two points: where you started and where you ended up. You then measure the change in distance and the change in time. For example, if a car travels 120 miles in 2 hours, you can find its speed by dividing the distance (120 miles) by the time (2 hours), which gives you a rate of change of 60 miles per hour.

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The rate of change measures how a quantity changes over time or across space. It's often represented as the slope of a line connecting two points on a graph.

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Dewain Sewell

Distance traveled divided by time it takes. On a graph that would be calculating the difference in the change in y and the change in x

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Kaushik Venugopal

The 'rate' of something is always relating to time. E.g. the rate of change of speed is how speed changes over time. So to find the rate of change of speed, you take the change in speed and divide it by the change of time. If a car went from 100 m/s to 50m/s in 10 seconds, to work out the rate of change of speed you would do -50/10, which is -4. So the rate of change of speed is -4m/s^2. (The rate of change of speed is acceleration, hence the acceleration of this car in this 10 second period is -4m/s^2.)

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The rate of change can be found by calculating the difference in the values of a quantity over a certain period of time or another variable. It is often calculated using the formula:


Rate of change = (Change in quantity) / (Change in time or another variable)


For example, to find the rate of change of distance with respect to time, you would divide the change in distance by the change in time. This gives you the speed or velocity.

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Olivia Hodnett

By finding the gradient of the line. You can do this by using the formula: m = (y2 โ€” y1) / (x2 โ€” x1). Where m is the gradient.

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Haseeb Ullah Khan

Consider the following equation

y=mx+c

The changing quantity is represented by the letter "y" called the independent variable. It is dependent upon a variable called the dependent variable denoted by 'x'. Find the value of "y" at two values of x. let Y1 be the output of X1 and Y2 be the output of X2. The rate of change of y will be calculated as follows:

dy/dx= (Y2-Y1)/(X2-X1)

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Zeid Al-Arqan

(Change in y) divided by (change in x) for the rate of change in a graph but for a problem solving question its the the change divided by the original

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