Consider the function $f(x) = 2x^3 - 9x^2 - 24x + 3$ on the interval $[-5, 10]$. Find the average or mean slope of the function on this interval.
By the Mean Value Theorem, we know there exists a $c$ in the open interval $(-5, 10)$ such that $f'(c)$ is equal to this mean slope. For this problem, there are two values of $c$ that work.
The smaller one is
and the larger one is