1. 8.2 Relative Rates of Growth Finney Demana Waits Kennedy Text

2. Objectives: Comparing Rates of Growth Using L’Hopital’s Rule to Compare Growth Rates Why? Understanding growth rates as x->∞ is an important feature in understanding the behavior of functions.

3. Essential Question: Can I determine which function growth faster or slower?

5. Conclusion: The functions grow at the same rate. The degree of the functions were the same. The constant had no affect on the comparison.

6. Conclusion: The exponential dominated the power function in the denominator. The numerator was growing faster than the denominator.

7. Conclusion: Exponentials grow faster than power functions. The two exponentials grow at the same rate even with different bases.

8. Conclusion: Power Functions grow faster than logarithmic functions.

9. Conclusion: The two functions grow at the same rate. Both had a dominate power function of the same degree.

10. Conclusion: The two functions grow at the same rate even though the bases were different. The predominate function in both were logarithms.

12. Conclusion: The two functions grow at the same rate. The degree of each function was the same as h(x) = x.