Nov 18, 12:02:17 PM Gren the function defined in the table below, find the average rate of change, in silplest form, of the function over the interval 24 2 4 32 6 8 Answer:

First, we have to select the points which belong to the interval, they must be x1=2, y1 = 56 and x2=4, y2 = 32
Then we use the formula for the average rate, which is
[tex]m=\frac{y2-y1}{x2-x1}=\frac{32-56}{4-2}=\frac{-24}{2}=-12[/tex]The average rate would be -12