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Graphs and Transformations - Homework

The document provides examples of transformations of graphs including stretches, translations, and finding points of intersection. It asks the reader to sketch graphs, write equations of transformed curves, find real solutions of equations, and determine values for constants based on given information about curves.

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Graphs and Transformations - Homework

The document provides examples of transformations of graphs including stretches, translations, and finding points of intersection. It asks the reader to sketch graphs, write equations of transformed curves, find real solutions of equations, and determine values for constants based on given information about curves.

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Hwi Jun An
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Section A: The basics

1 Which of the following options represents the transformation that maps the graph
1
of onto the graph of y  x  2 ?
4
Circle your answer.

A stretch, parallel A stretch, parallel


to the x-axis, A stretch, parallel to the y-axis, A stretch, parallel
1
to the x-axis, scale 1
to the y-axis, scale
scale factor factor 4 scale factor factor 4
4 4

[1 marks]

Sketch the graph of the curve with equation y   2 x  1 x  3 


2
2

[2 marks]

5 0 
3 (a) The curve with equation y  2
is translated by vector   .
x 2
Write down the equation of the transformed curve.

[1 mark]

3 (b) Sketch the transformed curve, labelling the equations of its asymptotes

[2 marks]

1
4 (a) Sketch, on the same set of axes, the graphs of the curves y 
x 1
and y   2 x  5  x  1 x  3  .

Label the points where the curves cross the axes, where the curves intersect and
any asymptotes.

[4 marks]

4 (b) Hence state the number of real solutions to the equation


1
  2 x  5  x  1 x  3 
x 1

[1 mark]
5 (a) The average velocity, V metres per second, at which a runner completes a race is
inversely proportional to the total time, T seconds, it takes for them to complete the
race.
Sketch a graph of V against T for positive values of T

[2 marks]

5 (b) Alex completes the race in 70 seconds and his average velocity is 6 metres per
second.
Find the time it takes Dexter to complete the race, given that his average speed is
5.6 metres per second.

[2 marks]
Section B: A bit more thinking

3
6 The curve with equation y  is stretched by scale factor 4 parallel to the x-axis.
x2
3
This transformed curve could also be obtained by stretching y  by scale
x2
factor k parallel to the y-axis.
State the value of k.

[2 marks]

7 State the transformation that maps the graph of y  4 x 2  3 onto the graph of
y  x2  3

[2 marks]

8 (a) f  x   54a a x3  27ax2  51 ax  12 , where a is a non-zero constant.

Show that a stretch scale factor 3 a parallel to the x-axis transforms the curve
y = f  x  onto the curve y = g  x  , where g  x   2x3  3 x2  17 x  12

[3 marks]

8 (b) Hence find the solutions to f  x   0 , giving your answers in terms of a.

[3 marks]

1
9 (a) The line y = kx, where k is a non-zero constant, touches the curve y 
x3
at exactly one point.
Find the value of k.

[3 marks]

1
9 (b) Using the value of k found in part (a), sketch the curves y  and y = kx on
x3
the same set of axes.
You should label the point of intersection between the two curves.

[3 marks]

9 (c) Explain why it is necessary to have the condition that k is a non-zero constant.

[1 mark]

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