Additional Practice
Unit 3: Determining Whether the Slope of a Curve is Positive, Negative, or Zero

Answer the questions below. Please do all your work on a piece of scrap paper, and, when you are done, check your answers against the ones provided.

Using the graph, answer the following questions.

  1. At which points is the slope of the curve positive?
  2. At which points is the slope of the curve negative?
  3. What is the slope at point D?
  4. Are there any maximum or minimum points in the curve? If so, which point(s) are maximum and minimum.


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