Consider the function , which is graphed below, along with the tangent lines to the graph at .


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Use the provided grid to estimate the slope of each tangent line. Your estimates need to be within 10% of the correct answer.






Recall that the derivative is also a function; you just computed five values of this function. On a piece of scratch paper, sketch a rough graph of . Which of the following best describes the graph of the derivative ?




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