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Given information

Given:-  the function is  and the points .

The secant line is .

 

To find :-  find the slope of the secant line at the given .

The formula to find the slope of a line that passes through two points is defined as .

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Here the two points are .

Then the slope of the secant line will be computed as follows:

 

 

(i) Now find the slope of the secant line at :

 

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