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Step-by-step explanation:

The rate of change of a relationship is the ratio of corresponding changes in value. Symbolically, we indicate a change with the greek letter Δ (pronounced "delta"). A change in x is written Δx ("delta eks") and a change in y is written Δy ("delta why"). We're looking for the ratio Δy/Δx ("delta y over delta eks").

Mathematically, Δx and Δy are the differences between two corresponding x an y values. To pick these, we can take any two rows in our table. Let's pick rows 4 and 2, nice whole numbers:

We can confirm that this holds for every other pair, too - picking rows 2 and 1 as an example:

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none of the above.

for one of the equations to be used in the process, there has to be a term in the equation since squared is .

since there is only a term in the first equation, we cannot derive a from completing the square.

solving with completing the square