Hello again, Tom from everystepcalculus.com everystepphysics.com this is a video on linear approximation for calculus. It’s a one variable situation, so probably calculus 1, and I’m gonna read it to you. Use linear approximation, in other words the tangent line to approximate 3 times square root of 27 as follows. A and f(x) equals 3 square root of x the equation the tangent line of f(x) at x=27. If you’ve written in the form y=mx+b, find a and b. then get m and b. so, let’s do it. Index 8 to get to my menu, and we’re gonna scroll down here to linear approximation in the L section, and we’ve got to choose one variable because there’s only x given, okay? 1 variable. The point slope form is y=mx+b, it’s a standard tangent line equation, and we’re gonna enter what’s given. Function is given, and that would be if you press L [inaudible] if there’s any lines here and they give it as alpha 3 times e square root of x. and I’ll show you what you’ve got here, you can change it if you made a mistake. Now I’ve gotta enter the point that we’re given, which is alpha 27. I say that’s okay also. So the first thing you do, you write the function here, you take the derivative of a function equals three, I’m gonna find the slope. Okay, so here’s the derivative of 3 times the square root of x, and they, they’re supposed to decide the closest square root to that number, I do that for you which is 25. and so we enter 25 into the derivative, and so the m is the slope = 3/10. now we take 25 and put it into the original function here, comes up with y=15. So here’s the point, 25 for x, 15 for y. at y=15 then we solve for b using this calculations here, just straight ahead algebra, and equals this right down here, mx+b okay? Now we plug in the point to evaluate, 27, and with that we come up with these calculations here which is 78/5, so, the answer’s 27 and 78/5. so m is 3/10 and b is 15/2, that would be the answer to this problem, okay? Go to my site if you like these programs, buy them, and enjoy passing calculus, okay? Have a good one.
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