Wednesday, October 24, 2012

The graph of the derivative of a linear function is a horizontal line.

For example, suppose the function is

f(x) = -2x + 4, the graph is a line with a slope of -2 and y intercept of (0, 4)

The derivative is -2, therefore the graph of the derivative is a horizontal line at y = -2.


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