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Business and economic situations are often described by graphs which are not straight lines, showing that the rate of change of the value is itself changing. Earlier algebraical methods are usually indequate to solve the resulting mathematical problems, so that methods of differential calculus, introduced by the first example, are needed.
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© 1977 Alexander E. Innes
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Innes, A.E. (1977). Calculus (i). In: Business Mathematics by Example. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15811-9_7
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