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A manufacturer of lightbulbs wants to produce bulbs that last about hours but, of course, some bulbs burn out faster than others. Let be the fraction of the company's bulbs that burn out before hours, so always lies between and .
What is the meaning of the derivative ?
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The meaning of the derivative is the rate at which the fraction increases as increases. This is because derivative is the measure of the rate at which the value of changes with respect to the change of the variable .
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