CHAPTER 4 PROJECT The Chapter Project on page 356 examines two economic indicators, the Unemployment Rate and the GDP growth rate, and investigates relationships they might have to each other.
In Chapters 2 and 3, we developed a variety of formulas for finding derivatives. We also began to investigate how derivatives are used to analyze velocity and acceleration and to approximate the zeros of a function.
In this chapter, we continue to explore applications of the derivative. We use the derivative to solve problems involving rates of change of variables that are related, to find optimal (minimum or maximum) values of functions, and to investigate properties of the graph of a function.
