Finding the slope of a linear function is straightforward. Furthermore the slope is the same at each point on the function. However this is not the case with non-linear functions. A non-linear ...

A derivative is a function which measures the slope. It depends upon x in some way, and is found by differentiating a function of the form y = f (x). When x is substituted into the derivative, the ...

Microsoft's Excel software for Mac can execute a number of statistical functions, including finding the y-intercept of the line formed by a set of data points. Excel's intercept function takes the ...