Question

What exactly does h repersent in a difference quotient?

Answer 1

@mathmath333 Are you busy?

Answer 2

no

Answer 3

Do you know what h repersents when youre trying to find the derivitave?

Answer 4

Or is it just a variable

Answer 5

provide more detail please

Answer 6

They told me to use (f(x+h) - f(x))/h

Answer 7

ohk

Answer 8

may be this will help

http://www.mathsisfun.com/calculus/derivatives-introduction.html

Answer 9

i think it is the change in value.

Answer 10

\(h=\Delta x = \) the increment in \(x\)

in the limit this increment gets infinitesimally small \(\to dx\)