Tangent Line Visualization
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A Visualization of the Tangent Line
Move the point and shrink and change the width of the secant line to see the secant line approximate the tangent line. The tangent line is shown in blue and the secant line is shown in red.
The secant line between the points (0.75,0.7317) and (1.25,0.3153) has slope -0.8327.
The tangent line at (1,0.5403) has slope -0.8415.