Question

A small business earns a profit of $6500 in January and $17,500 in May. What is the rate of change in profit for this time period? Please help :(

Answer 1

So in a matter of 3 months, the profit went up 11,000$ ( you would subtract 17,500 from 6500 to get that number.) Once you get that you would divide it by 3 because there are 3 months in-between. You want to get the profit for one month to learn the rate. So your answer would be 3666 dollars profit a month.