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Example Question #41 : Properties Of Functions And Graphs
What is the slope of the following equation?
The given equation will need to be rewritten in slope intercept format.
Divide by two on both sides.
Rearrange the right side by order of powers.
The slope can be seen as
The answer is:
Example Question #41 : Functions And Graphs
What is the slope of the given equation?
The slope in a linear equation is defined as .
The x-variable exists in the denominator, which refers to the parent function of:
This function is not linear, and will have changing slope along its domain.
The answer is:
Example Question #1 : Maximum And Minimum
What is the vertex of the following function? Is it a maximum or a minimum?
The equation of a parabola can be written in vertex form
where is the vertex and determines if it is a minimum or maximum. If is positive, then it is a minimum; if is negative, then it is a maximum.
In this example, is negative, so the vertex is a maximum.
and
Example Question #2 : Maximum And Minimum
Determine the maximum or minimum of .
Rewrite the equation by the order of powers.
This is a parabola in standard form:
Determine the values of to the vertex formula.
Since the leading coefficient of the parabola is negative, the parabola will curve downward and will have a maximum point.
Therefore there is a maximum at,
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