This worksheet is intended for students to practice evaluating the difference quotient, given a function. When I teach the difference quotient, some students pick it up right away, and other students need a little more practice. So I created this worksheet, scaffolding the required skills. In this worksheet, I included rational functions, radical functions, and polynomials. The students will have to simplify complex rational functions, multiply by the conjugate, and do binomial expansions. The