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Solved! After pondering about it for a while and letting my subconscious consider it for a couple hours while I did other things, my brain figured it out on its own. Amazing. I get it now. :smile:

More Specifically... In summary, I really need someone to tell me this: How do I find the numerical rate of a difference quotient that is quadratic?

Homework Statement I have 12 x,y data points (x is distance, y is elevation) divided into three groups (sets). From those three sets, I created 3 cubic polynomials of exact fit, and now I am supposed to find their difference quotients, graph the difference quotients, and use the graph to...