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Your solution, attempt at solution:

 

If you are unable to attempt a solution, give a phrase-by-phrase interpretation of the problem along with a statement of what you do or do not understand about it. This response should be given, based on the work you did in completing the assignment, before you look at the given solution.

 

 

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Question: *   3.1.20 (was 3.1.6) (-2,5),(-1,3),(3,7),(4,12)}Is the given relation a function? Why or why not? If so what are its domain and range?

This relation is a function because every first element is paired with just one second element--there are no distinct ordered pairs with the same first element.

 

the domain is ( -2,-1,3,4)

 

the range is ( 5,3,7,12)

 

Another way of saying that this is a function is that every element of the domain appears only once in the relation.

 

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Question: *   3.1.46 / 34 (was 3.1.20) f(0), f(1), f(-1), f(-x), -f(x), f(x+1), f(2x), f(x+h) for 1 - 1 / (x+1)^2What are you expressions for f(0), f(1), f(-1), f(-x), -f(x), f(x+1), f(2x), f(x+h)?*   3.1.30. y = (3x-1)/(x+2)

 

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* * STUDENT SOLUTION WITH INSTRUCTOR COMMENTS: f(x) = 1- 1/(x+2)^2

 

f(0) = 1- 1/ (0+2)^2

f(0) = 1-1/4

f(0) = 3/4

 

f(1) = 1- 1/ (3)^2

f(1) = 1- 1/9

f(1) = 8/9

 

f(-1) = 1- 1/(-1+2)^2

f(-1)= 1-1

f(-1)= 0

 

f(-x)= 1- 1/(-x+2)^2

f(-x)= 1 -1/ (x^2-4x+4)

 

-f(x) = -(1- 1/(x+2)^2)

-f(x)= -(1 - 1/ (x^2+4x+4))

-f(x) = -(1/(x^2 + 4x + 4)) - 1

 

** Your answer is right but you can leave it in factored form:

 

f(-x) = -(1 - 1/(x+2)^2)

= -1 + 1 / (x+2)^2. **

 

f(x+1) = 1- 1/((x+1) + 2)^2. This can be expanded as follows, but the expansion is not necessary at this point:

 

= 1- 1/ ((x+1)^2 +2(x+1) + 2(x+1)+4)

 

= 1- 1/ ((x+1)^2 +8x+8)

 

= 1- 1/ (x^2+2x+1+8x+8)

 

= 1- 1/(x^2 + 10x +9)

 

** Good algebra, and correct, but again no need to expand the square, though it is perfectly OK to do so. **

 

f(2x)= 1-1/(2x+2)^2

 

= 1- 1/(4x^2+8x+4)

 

** same comment **

 

f(x+h)= 1- 1/((x+h)+2)^2

 

= 1- 1/((x+h)^2 + 4(x+h) + 4)

 

= 1- 1/ (x^2 + 2xh + h^2+4x+4h+4)

 

** same comment **

 

 

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Question: *   3.1.36 / 44 (was 3.1.30)

 

Is y = (3x-1)/(x+2) the equation of a function?

 

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** This is a function. Any value of x will give you one single value of y, and all real numbers x except -2 are in the domain. So for all x in the domain this is a function. **

 

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Question: *   3.1.54 (was 3.1.40). G(x) = (x+4)/(x^3-4x)

 

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* *  Starting with

 

g(x) = (x+4) / (x^3-4x) we factor x out of the denominator to get

g(x)= (x+4) / (x (x^2-4)) then we factor x^2 - 4 to get

g(x) = (x+4) / (x(x-2)(x+2)).

 

The denominator is zero when x = 0, 2 or -2.

 

The domain is therefore all real numbers such that x does not equal {0,2,-2}. **

 

STUDENT QUESTION:

 

 Well, I went about it the long way and plugged in the numbers until I found what would make the denominator 0. I still have trouble factoring. I don’t see how factoring x out of the denominator helped to come up with the solution. Wouldn’t you still have to guess at x?

INSTRUCTOR RESPONSE

 

Once you've factored out x, the other factor is x^2 - 4. This is the difference of two squares and factors accordingly as (x-2) (x+2).

 

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Question: *   3.2.12 (was 3.1.50). Pos incr exp fnDoes the given graph depict a function? Explain how you determined whether or not the graph depicts a function.If the graph does depict a function then what are the domain and range of this function?

using the vertical line test we determine this is a function, since any given vertical line intersects the graph in exactly one point.

 

The function extends all the way to the right and to the left, and there are no breaks, so the domain consists of all real numbers.

 

The range consists of all possible y values. The function takes all y values greater than zero so the range is {y | y>0}, expressed in interval notation as (0, infinity).

 

The y intercept is (0,1); there is no x intercept but the negative x axis is an asymptote.

 

This graph has no symmetery.

 

 

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Question: *   3.2.16 (was 3.1.54) Circle rad 2 about origin.

 

 

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Using the vertical line test we see that every vertical line lying between x = -2 and x = 2, not inclusive of x = -2 and x =2, intersects the graph in two points. So this is not a function

 

STUDENT COMMENT

 

 I made the mistake by including the x intercepts, when the vertical line test is only the y intercepts and it has only 2
points.

INSTRUCTOR RESPONSE

 

You don't necessarily have to use the y intercepts. Any x value between -2 and 2, not including -2 or 2, defines a vertical line which intecepts the circle at two points.

That is, for -2 < x < 2, the vertical line through (x, 0) passes through the circle at two points.

 

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Question: *   3.2.22 (was 3.1.60). Downward hyperbola vertex (1,2 5).Does the given graph depict a function? Explain how you determined whether or not the graph depicts a function.If the graph does depict a function then what are the domain and range of this function?

 

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Every vertical line intersects the graph at exacty one point so the graph depicts a function.

 

The function extends to the right and to the left without breaks so the domain consists of all real numbers.

 

The range consists of all possible y values.

 

 

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Question: *   3.1.84 / 82 (was 3.1.70). f(x) =(2x - B) / (3x + 4). 

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If f(0) = 2 then we have

 

2 = (2 * 0 - B) / (3 * 0 + 4) = -B / 4, so that

B = -4 * 2 = -8.

 

 

 

If f(2) = 1/2 then we have

 

1/2 = ((2*2)-B) / ((3*2)+4)

1/2 = (4-B) / 10

5 = 4-B

1=-B

B=-1

 

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STUDENT COMMENT

 

 I tried to write it on paper and follow how it was solved, but it is still a little confusing to me. Especially the second
part where f(2) = ½ I don’t see where you plug in the ½ or where you plug in the 2?

INSTRUCTOR RESPONSE

 

f(x) = (2x - B) / (3x + 4), so
f(2) = (2 * 2 - B) / (3 * 2 + 4) = (4 - B) / 10.

Since f(2) = (4 - B) / 10,

f(2) = 1/2 means
(4 - B) / 10 = 1/2.

We solve this equation for B, as in the given solution.

 

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Question: *   3.1.94 / 90 (was 3.1.80). H(x) = 20 - 13 x^2 (falling rock on Jupiter)What are the heights of the rock at 1, 1.1, 1.2 seconds?

 

When is the rock at each altitude: 15 m, 10 m, 5 m.When does the rock strike the ground?

 

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GOOD STUDENT SOLUTION: The height at t = 1 is

 

H(1) = 20-13

H(1) = 7m

 

The height at t = 1.1 is

 

H(1.1)= 20-13(1.1)^2

= 20-13(1.21)

= 20-15.73

H(1.1)= 4.27m.

 

The height at t = 1.2 is

 

H(1.2)= 20 - 13*(1.2)^2

 

= 20- 13 *(1.44)

 

= 20-18.72

 

H(1.2) = 1.28m.

 

The rock is at altitude 15 m when H(x) = 15:

 

15=20-13x^2

-5=-13x^2

5/13= x^2

x= +- .62

.62sec.

 

The rock is at altitude 10 m when H(x) = 10:

 

10=20-13x^2

-10=-13x^2

10/13 = x^2

x= +-.88

.88sec.

 

The rock is at 5 meter heigh when H(x) = 5:

 

5=20-13x^2

-15 = -13x^2

15/13=x^2

x= +- 1.07

1.07sec.

 

To find when the rock strikes the ground let y = 0 and we get

 

0= 20-13x^2. Adding -20 to both sides we have

 

-20=-13x^2. Multiplying both sides by -1/13 we get

 

20/13=x^2. Taking the square root of both sides we obtain the approximate value of x:

 

x=+-1.24

 

We conclude that

 

x = 1.24sec.

 

when the rock strikes the ground **

 

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