What is the significance of the tangent to a curve that passes through the origin?

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Why the tangent shows the value of Max Average Product Labor(APL)? Besides why the secant of APL and Marginal Product Labor represent the tangent of the Total Product curve passing through the origin? Ref: SCHAUMS OUTLINE Series Microeconomics Book by Dr.Dominick Savatore (Chapter: Theory of Production) Figure

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